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3BZBSSM Today's Chuckle What this country needs Is a grocery cart with four wheels that all go in the same direction. 74 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Monday, July 1, 1974 HE COLLAPSES WHILE GOLFING ft. 1 Tf- HOOK DNR Director Gene Gazlay ws i OiV THE DNR Chases Slale Indians Fishing Wilhout Permits 0 THE STATE DEPARTMENT of Natural Resources is going after Michigan Indians who go fishing without a license. The DNR has asked the Attorney General's Office to hire a full-time lawyer to prosecute the unlicensed Indians. The Indians say they're exercising treaty rights granted by the United States.

The DNR says they're poachers. The Attorney General's Office says the issue needs to be tested further in court. The Rich Get Richer BOB LANIER, WHO MAKES $300,000 a year with the Pistons, picked up some pocket money in Puerto Rico last week. He was one of a dozen NBA players invited to a golf tournament there. Lanier's foursome took first prize a trophy and $1,000.

Amoco Oil Co. drilling in the area. He also urged the defeat of a bill that would have abolished the Game and Fish Protection Fund. Gazlay had first supported the bill, which would have put the revenue from fishing and hunting licenses into the state's general fund instead of a DNR fund to improve fishing and hunting. He is survived by his wife, Lurella; son Ray Scott, 22, who was his golfing companion Sunday, and daughter Maureen Kay, all residents of months ago at age 55.

Last February, Gazlay was hospitalized for a circulatory problem attributed to an irregular heartbeat. Associates said he showed no signs of ill health in recent months. A former assistant director of the DNR, Gaslay was appointed as director in 1972 after 23 years with the department. As director he issued a special report blaming the 1972 gas blowout explosions in Williamsburg on Frtt Press Lansing Staff LANSING A. Gene Gazlay, 50, director ot the state Department of Natural Resources and Environment, collapsed while playing golf with his son Sunday and died a short time later.

Gazlay was taken from the Groesbeck Golf Course shortly after 2 p.m. and pronounced dead at Sparrow Hospital about a mile from the course. He was apparently the victim of a heart attack. Gazlay's predecessor as department director, Ralph MacMullan, also died of a heart attack 21 A. Gene Gazlay Faker Chasers THE STATE BUREAU of Medical Assistance has a fraud squad.

It checks questionable Medicaid payments to doctors. In the last year, the squad recovered more than $1 million in ineligible or excessive payments. Court Rules Smeekens Cheated Pair City Fests Filmed BY DAVID JOHNSTON Free Press Lansing Statf ANGOLA, Ind. The Supreme Court has ordered Michigan state Rep. John P.

Smeekens to pay a Detroit couple more than 5100,000 for wrongrully ejecting them from property he had sold them. Smeekens has escaped paying the judgment for 14 years by utilizing a series of legal maneuvers, including an unsuccessful attempt to convince a court that as a state legislator he was immune from litigation. The judgment handed down last week against Smeekens stems from his sale of a motel and some acreage in 1956. In just one day, court and land title records reveal, the Cold-water Republican more than doubled his money on the deal while managing to hang on three-fourths of the land. THERE ARE CAMERA crews out filming all the testivi- ties going on now in Detroit.

The crews are filming promotion spots for the Michigan Tourist Council, showing Detroiters at the Gar Wood boat race Sunday, fireworks Monday, the Focus: HOPE Happening and next weekend's Greektown Festival. The crews will stop folks at random to ask them if they're having fun. Be ready. Sterling Heights Storm FOUR STERLING HEIGHTS councilmen face a recall campaign. Their foes don't like their stand on urban development in the Macomb County suburb, term it "runaway." One of the councilmen, Richard Brown, says the recallers are a group of people in a "dying organization" that Sterling Heighters really "want a mayor not a city manager who holds himself above the law." Anyway, the charges fly frequently in Sterling Heights.

Fights have been reported in council sessions, too. Street Corner Greenery ROSETTI AND ASSOCIATES architects bought that three-story building west of the small corner park at Congress and Washington Blvd. The firm made an agreement with the city to maintain the grassy area along Washington which the city will allow them to use as a front yard. The firm fenced off the park early last week to begin a building refacing project. I Iff "Cft Sv--' V-V.

According to court and land records, Smeekens didn't even Frtt Prss Photos by HUGH GRANNUM Ken Lturnstinc refused a $95,000 offer for his P51 Miss Suzi-Q No Profit There $0 Old Warbird tevoted Lot a own the property when he took a down payment on it from Edmour and Helen Bertrand of 20042 W. Chicago, Detroit. LAST WEEK'S ruling against Smeekens supports earlier decisions by two trial courts, two appeals courts and one earlier Indiana Supreme Court action. The high court did order that the amount of the original judgment be recalculated, which may reduce it slightly from the current figure. The Bertrands were looking for a small motel away from the big city in 1956 when they came across Smeekens.

He showed them the 33-unit Panorama Hotel, a modest motel on a hillside here, 30 miles south of Coldwater, Mich. After selling their home and business and giving Smeekens part of the $30,000 down payment, the Bertrands say they got a telephone call from Helen M. Allton, a Ft. Wayne, real estate agent. Miss PHILL JOURDAN RUNS the ethnic festivals and is assistant general superintendent of the DPW, He gets about $30,000 a year for that.

While he was Mayor Gribbs' press secretary, Jourdan, 41, went to law school at night for five years, graduated and got several offers to join local law firms. But the starting salary wasn't much: $15,000 a year. He'll stay with the city. -aw mmmmm Allton said that she, not Smeekens, owned the motel. BY LOUIS HELDMAN Frtt Prtss Staff Writer It isn't that $95,000 is a bad offer for a 30-year-old P51 fighter-bomber.

It's just that Ken Burnstine isn't about to give Miss Suzi-Qup. "If I did," laughs the burly, 41-year-old ex-Marine Corps pilot, "I'd just take the money and buy another warbird, probably one more expensive." Since 1962, Burnstine, of Newport Beach, has had three of the old fighter planes. The first was a Mustang for which he paid $8,500. He's traded up twice since. He got his present P51 in 1968.

He modified its Rolls-Royce engine (or racing and now enters it in two major races a year, as well as about a dozen air shows. The 1 was used both in Europe and in the Pacific, Burnstine said. He and 53 other pilot-owners of World War II planes who call themselves and their planes Warbirds were at Windsor Airport Sunday for the Windsor Air Show. The highlights of the three-hour show included a mock air battle in which all 54 planes are in the air and a 30-minute precision flying demonstration by the Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds. Air show officials estimated that 18,000 persons paid admission ($3 for adults, $1 for kids) to see the show Sunday.

Hundreds more lined roads near the airport for a free look. THE WARBIRDS motto is "Keep 'em flying." Burnstine has done more than that. He has increased horsepower and put in engine cooling systems that allow him to race at more than 400 miles an hour. Air show organizer Don Plumb, himself a warbird, said the planes at the show are worth $75,000 each on the average. Burnstine said the value of the old planes is skyrocketing because there are so few left and there's more interest than ever in Hying them.

He estimates that Warbird members in the United States own about 200 of them. On Sunday Plumb was flying a Curtiss P40 Warhawk like the type flown in China and the South Pacific. Plumb rescued it a year ago from a salvage yard and has restored it, right to the point of repainting the vicious-looking 6hark jaw on its nose. Other vintage planes at the show carried designations rekindling memories of ferocious air battles and midnight bombing runs. Some of the planes belonged to the Allies, others to the enemy.

Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Wildcat, Bearcat, Firefly, Sea Fury, Zero, Messer-schmitt. They were all in the air Sunday over Windsor. And they'll be back Monday at 1:30 p.m. for a repeat performance. Keep your blackout curtains drawn until the air raid warden sounds the all-clear.

Merle Haggard Merle Haggard Stricken Country music star Merle Haggard was rushed to a hospital Sunday night a few minutes before he was scheduled to appear at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston. Fuzzy Owens, Haggard's manager, said Haggard was admitted to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in i a with severe stomach cramps, a temperature over 100 degrees and a feeling of sleepiness. Owens said Haggard would undergo a series of tests, but late Sunday night it was felt that Haggard had some kind of stomach infection. About 5,000 people were at the concert in which Haggard was scheduled to appear during the second half of the show.

A spokesman for the theater baid all ticket money would be refunded. SH'AR House Wants To Be a Good Neighbor George Van Antwerp, director of SHAR House, is his fingers crossed over an appearance before Common Council Tuesday at 11 a.m. His group Self Help Addictive Rehabilitation is hoping to be able to acquire llie Boule vard General Hospital at 1852 W. Grand Boulevard, will need the approval of neighbors. Van Antwerp has already had affirmative reactions from most of the people he has contacted, hopes that nothing will go wrong.

Says he: "We use absolutely no drugs such as methadone in our program and all our people are residents so there will be no coming and going that might possibly upset our neighbors. We believe in being good neighbors." Clarence (Steamer) AIR SHOW organizer Don Plumb, himself a fan of vintage World War II planes. According to attorney Wilson Shoup, who now represents the Bertrands, Smeekens told the couple not to worry and that he would take care of the detail of ownership quickly. On June 22, 1956, Miss Allton sold the motel and 12 acres to Smeekens. Tax stamps affixed to the warranty deed indicate the price was $70,000.

The following morning, June 23, Smeekens executed a land contract with the Bertrands for the motel and three of the 12 acres of land. The price was $150,000. This gave Smeekens an $80,000 profit and nine acres of land in less than 24 hours. ALL WENT smoothly, testimony shows, until December 1959, when the Bertrands paid only $1,000 of their $3,000 payment, plus interest, and didn't make their Jan. 1, 1960, payment at all.

Smeekens and the Bertrands met to negotiate a new payment schedule. Smeekens accepted, but didn't cash checks from the Bertrands that would cover the payments under the Please turn to Page MA, Col. 1 Horning, an All American at Colgate in 1917, who then coached football, baseball and hockey at Highland Park High for 40 years, is coming along very well at Beaumont Hospital after surgery. He'd love to hear from any of his former athletes. Recommended reading is "The First Fifty Years," a history of the Detroit Zoo, by Bill Austin, Lijlitiiiiio curator of education at the Zoo.

Sticker spotted on a Detroit police motor scooter: Remember Preserve Nature Detroit's New City Charter Goes into Operation Today (ills Jogger Always Wear A Helmet-Think Safety TIP OF THE TOPPER to Kathleen Young Finneran from Wayne who has her third illustration in the current Esquire magazine. She's a graduate of Wayne State and the University of Michigan and now lives in New York with her artist husband. Iii Livonia mayor's function except Speaking of divorce, as I did the other day, reminded making appointments and Friend of Mine of a particularly acrimonious session between two young people who hated each other so much they seemed absolutely unable to come to agreement over the division of property. Increased mayoral author-' i to appoint department heads and deputies. A provision barring discrimination against homosexuals.

Elimination of the elective office of city treasurer alter the current treasurer's term expires in 1977. A provision allowing Common Council members to fill vacancies on that body rather than filling them by election. Creation of the post of deputy mayor to take over the vetoing ordinances during the mayor's absence from the city. A five-member beard of ci-Please turn to Page 13A, Col. 1 By United Press International Powerful thunderstorms battered much of Michigan early Sunday, leaving at least one person dead and causing heavy damage.

Howard Tishlcr, 52, of Li There was no way out until Friend drew up an agree ment that ran about like this: he got the gun, she the bullets. He was awarded the record player and she the records. Everything was so divided that the items in themselves Detroit Jammed for Weekend Fetes were useless. They recognized this, of course, but were satisfied that the other hadn't gotten the best of the deal. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY from Bud Starwas: You A happy combination of warm weather and lots to do know you're getting fat when you step on the scales and the in NCI card pops out reading lumc, balk LATER-ALONE.

I i f'Ayi P'e found they couldn't have any itl'n'V A children of their own and finally BY EDWARD BOYER Frtt Press Staff Writer Coleman Young's mayoral muscle will be increased on Monday, Detroit's police department will be run by a five-member civilian commission and several city departments will get new names Environmental Protection and Maintenance, for example, rather than DPW. The changes are but a few provided by the new city charter which takes effect Monday. Adopted by Detroit's voters last November, the new charter replaces one adopted in 1918, back when women did not have the right to vote and Grand Blvd. was the city limits. HAILED AS a "people's charter" by the nine-member commission which drafted it and by proponents who advo-c a adoption, major changes in the new charter include: 9 Creation of the office of ombudsman, the citizens' man in city government charged with slaying the red-tape dragon with a thousand cuts.

Creation of a Consumer Affairs Department to protect citizens from fraudulent business practices. adopted a son. As so often happens, almost immediately after the adop tion Mrs. Brown became pregnant. When the child was born, the par vonia, was struck by lightning and killed as he jogged near his home.

Chris Mansfield, 12, of Co-pemish, was treated at a hospital for shock after being struck by lightning and temporarily blinded. Winds of up to 60 miles per hour battered Pellston, and the National Weather Service reported that a tornado was sighted near Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula. Lightning struck the Over-layer Plastic Co. in Beaverton, northwest of Midland, touching off a $100,000 fire which destroyed the firm. A number of fires were touched off by lightning as the storm ripped across the state.

Fires were reported in three homes in Brecken ridge and Riverdale areas of Gratiot County. Heavy rains flooded roads and disrupted traffic in some areas and large hailstones were reported at several ents were ecstatic. Ordinary names like John or George didn't seem at all fitting for such a prodigy. Detroit and Windsor made lor massive people and traffic jams downtown Sunday. Traffic was especially had on main routes to the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

First Precinct police reported that the entire area at the foot of Woodward was jammed most of the afternoon. The Chrysler and Lodge freeways could not be entered for long periods at many downtown ramps because of the severe tie-ups. TRAFFIC WAS BACKED IIP on 1-75 north of the Ambassador Bridge for a quarter a mile. The wait at the tunnel ranged from 10 to 40 minutes most of the afternoon, according to the Automobile Club of Michigan. The caue of it all was the Gar Wood hydroplane race on the Detroit River, a downtown jazz and ragtime festival, a French marketplace on the Kern Block, an American ethnic festival and the Focus: HOPE Happening near Cobo Hall.

And that was just in Detroit. In Windsor there was an air show, bicycle races and a family picnic at Mic-Mac Park all kinds of fun for everyone but the traffic police. There will be more of the same on Monday as the Detroit-Windsor Freedom Festival continues. The annual J.L. Hudson Co.

fireworks show is scheduled for 9:45 p.m. and is expected to draw some 500,000 people to the river. They finally settled on Fantastic. The Door cuy went through lite hating that awful name that made him the butt ut so much ridicule. On his death bed he pleaded with his wife to leave the Fantastic off his tombstone.

"Just put Bruwn." She agreed but had second thoughts after his death. Just Free Press Photo by JIMMY TAFOYA Brown with the date of his birth and departure seemed just too plain. So. under his name she put mis legend: "During mar There was plenty to see on the riverfront Sunday. Michelle Gawrysiac, 2, kept her eye on the hydroplane races with the help of her mother's riage, he never looked at another woman." And now everyone wno passes tne lomDsione murmurs: "Fantastic!".