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Today's Chuckle The biggest job Congress has Is to get the money from the taxpayer without disturbing the voter. A (A THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Thursday, July 4, 1974 I I I I I I M.T.I. T.I.I tj $135,000 CRAFT HUNTED ON LAKES Two Pirates Flee with 44-Foot Yacht Grysen speculated that the thieves might already have a buyer for the boat either in Milwaukee, 83 miles across Lake Michigan from Grand Haven, or in Chicago, 105 miles away. The boat, which had both Its fuel tanks full, has a cruising range of 350 to 400 miles. The boat's galley was also fully stocked, according to Gezon, for the holiday weekend.

When asked if the theft had spoiled his holiday plans, Gezon replied, "That has to be the understatement of the day." down the Grand River Channel toward Lake Michigan with the thieves no longer dressed in coveralls, according to witnesses, but in "yachting clothes." Gezon doesn't think, the men have much of a chance of getting away with his boat. "There are probably only three Hatterases like mine on Lake Michigan," he said. Sgt. Grysen, whose office handles numerous stolen boat cases each year, agreed. "You could steal a Chris-Craft and get away with it," he said, "but a Hatteras sticks out like a sore thumb." The men, one in his 20s and the other In his 40s, had the attendants cast off the lines and said they'd be back in half an hour.

WHEN THE BOAT, a custom-built Hat-teras, hadn't returned two hours later, Gezon was contacted and he told the marina that he had not sent anyone to work on the boat i The Coast Guard and the sheriff's department were then notified and they began searching for the motor yacht. The missing boat was last seen sailing BY DENNIS VON HATTEN Fret Fret Staff Wrlttr Authorities on the Great Lakes are looking for a 44-foot yacht worth at least $135,000. It was stolen Monday from its slip at the Spring Lake Holiday Inn Marina by two men posiins as mechanics. According to Sgt. Bernard Grysen of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department, the two men, wearing green coveralls and carrying tool chests, told dock attendants that the boat's owner, David Gewm of Grand Rapids had sent them to work on the boat, the Mary Barbara III.

1 School Aid ouse Votes Par ochia STREET RELIEF Firm's Home Gas Patrons Likely to Get Rate Break THE MORE THAN 900,000 residential gas customers of Consumers Power may be in for a rate reduction. The Attorney General's Office opposed a recent Consumers rate hike saying the utility wanted it because of money problems it was having with its Marysville gas plant. The argument was that industry benefits most from that plant, and residential customers shouldn't have to suffer higher fuel bills for it. Staffers with the Public Service Commission and Consumers Power agreed residential gas users should get a break. Look for that to happen.

It Goes Like This ROBERT COLOMBO SENT a guy up the river for mug ging. The Recorder's Court Judge tagged this addition to the convicted man's sentence: that he buy a copy of the record "Fools Rush In," and play it occasionally. Colombo hummed a few bars, too. Don't Mess with Emily IT WAS YOUR BASIC daring daylight robbery gone afoul. Emily Gail, who owns Emily's Across the Street, a sort of "in" downtown specialty shop, tackled a robber who had a fistful of her dollars he had just rifled from the cash register.

She surprised him with the tackle and two store patrons helped keep him in tow until the police arrived. The would-be bandit suffered a broken wrist. Co Where the Customers Are LOTS OF MICHIGAN people bought fireworks in Toledo this year, said the man at Sunset Fireworks there. His business, he said, has been so good this year that he's thinking about opening a branch in Michigan. Michigan fireworks dealers can only sell to state residents who have a permit to shoot off fireworks from their municipality, said the state police.

Knh-a-l)ul)-Diil) HUDSON'S RENTED the 24th-floor presidential suite at the Pontchartrain Hotel for a private bash on Fireworks Night. The suite faces the river and the best viewing spot for the spectacular is in the ornate (sunken tub) bathroom which has a ceiling-to-floor window. The people in the bathroom: The three women that paid $150 at the Channel 56 auction to buy into the Hudson's party. Those who had to make use of the toilet facilities during the 45-minute fireworks show used another bathroom. Classroom Cache WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY College wants to use th Rnsarv Hieh facilities for classrooms.

The paro Claims On Leach Estate OKd State Would Pay for Texts BY ROGER LANE Prtt Press Lansing Staff LANSING The Michigan House passed a $1.3 billion school aid bill Wednesday for the new fiscal year and included a provision that the state would pay the cost of textbooks and supplies for parochial school students starting in 1975-76. Recognizing that the new textbook provision might be in conflict with court decisions on public aid to parochial schools, the legislators asked in the bill for an advisory legal opinion from the state Supreme Court. The bill, representing the BY MARYANNE CONHEIM Prtt Press Staff Wrlttr An Oakland County Probate Judge on Wednesday allowed claims of almost $200,000 against the estate of slain furniture executive Harvey Leach and also heard a request from Joshua Doore Inc. to get its furniture from Leach's apartment. Leach was found murdered March 16 with several ax wounds ia the neck.

THE LEACH ESTATE Includes at least $240,000 in life insurance policies, plus 70,000 shares of stock in Joshua Doore, which, depending on market conditions, are worth about $200,000. Oakland Probate Judge Norman R. Barnard received a Council Overrides Young Veto chial school closed recently because of poor enrollment. WCCC will propose the plan to take over the building when its Board of Trustees meets again. 1.1 U.

mimmmm second largest chunk of the 1974-75 state budget, was referred to the Senate, which is expected to act on it next week after returning from the July 4 holiday recess. HOUSE APPROVAL of the school subsidy measure brought the Legislature to the halfway point in dealing with Gov. Milliken's proposed $2.8 billion state budget, with all of the budget bills having passed either the Senate or the House. Leaders expect to wrap up work on the budget by July 12 and then adjourn until after the Aug. 6 primary election, probably until mid-September.

The education bill carries a $76 million increase in subsidies for public grade and high school over last year's allocation despite a projected 30,000 decline in school enrollment to 2,130,000. Most of the additional money will go for school employe pensions, special educa-t i programs, pupils transportation and enrichment of basic per pupil grants to local districts. Funds for special education were increased by nearly $18 million to $91.5 million. Financing of textbooks and Please turn to Page 10A, Col. 1 Frt Prest Photo by JOE LIPPINCOTT petition from Joshua Doore to regain furnishings from Leach's luxury bachelor apartment.

The petition listed 40 pieces of living room, dining room, loyer, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, den and hallway furniture; 22 plants; 48 paintings and pieces of sculpture; three dried floral arrangements; a plastic fruit centerpiece, and two bathroom facial tissue dispensers. Leach's apartment reportedly was furnished by the furniture company as a fringe benefit. THE LARGEST claim was filed by Leach's former wife, Mrs. Sydney Leach, based on expected alimony and child support over the next 20 years for the couple's two children. Leach's landlord, the Sullivan-Smith Realty asked for $1,275 in back rent on Leach's apartment, and the Ira Kaufman Chapel, which handled Leach's burial, asked for $2,486.

Please turn to Page 8A, Col. 1 Mrs. Surrlu: "I would say to you, love lliis land and its flag." An Old Lady from Romania Salutes the Fourth of July The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to override Mayor Young's veto of an ordinance which gjves the council and not the mayor final authority over city purchases and contracts. The action came after he mayor's office rejected a council, proposal to settle the dispute through arbitration. An aide to the mayor contended that such a settlement would not be legally binding.

Council President Carl Levin said the imayor has agreed to send contracts and major purchase orders to the council "for its information," but only after the imayor has approved theim. But Levin said the council's 9 to 0 override of the mayor's veto will enable the council to approve or disapprove contracts as it originally planned. HE SAID the final resolution of the dispute, the first major disagreement between the council and the mayor since both took office in January, will probably come in court. Levin added that anyone who has an interest in a contract and disagrees with a decision on it by the mayor or the council could challenge either one's authority by bringing suit. Levin said such a legal process would provide "the neatest way to obtain a court determination" of whether the new charter intends to give final contract authority to the mayor or the council.

Those Bang Up Old Days Memorable, But Weird Duly noted, 01' Windy's recollections of the Fourth of July (Joins' of his childhood. I've always been Intrigued by that colorfu. era just f.fter the Civil War. Rut shucks, we'll probably have more bangs and pops today. And every time it will mean somebody's on the way to the mor-jue or the hospital.

I was very small when what used to be known as wiser heads ruled out fireworks except the sterile kind reserved for spectacles from a safe distance. But I will never forget an Incident involving a kid on the block better known for his good looks than his brains. And I was sure for a few seconds he was about to lose both. A standard cracker of the day was the Buster, two inches long, with not too fast a fuse, and a wallop out of proportion to its size. It could put a noticeable bulge in a tin can or rip a cigar box to shreds.

Under porches it would set your ears ringing for half an hour. Good for throwing, too. Like I said, this boy was not too bright, and his span of attention was limited. He lit buster, drew back his arm to heave It, end then, so help me, nis eye wandered to something else maybe a du or a bird or a girl and he just stood there holding the buster, the fuse shooting sparks. I trird to yell but nothing came.

I shut my eyes and was afraid to open them when the thing went off with a terrible BLAAAAAM! To insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any tactual error which may occur in our news columns. we were beaten If caught reading the Bible," she said. She said the Romanian Orthodox priests forbade Bible reading because they did not want the people "to know the truth, because the truth will set you free." Mrs. Surdu said her love for the Bible and her quest for truth and freedom made it impossible for her to remain in Romania. In 1929 she and her two children left the country to rejoin her husband, who had migrated here six years earlier.

She said he had been secretary of the Social-Democratic Party and had been forced to leave Romania for speaking out against mistreatment of the poor and laborers. Mrs. Surdu said she was pregnant at the time and Please turn to Page 8A, Col. 1 BY CAROL BOWIE Prtt Press Stiff Wrlttr In an age when many Americans thumb their noses at things like the Statue of Liberty, Old Glory and Independence Day, there's a little gray haired lady in East Detroit who salutes them. For they remind Elena Surdu that, in this country, she is free to speak and think and worship as she chooses things she was not free to do in her native Romania.

"When I came to this country, I got down on my knees and thanked God Almighty I was out of there," said Mrs. Surdu. IT'S BEEN nearly 45 years since then, but Mrs. Surdu still recalls the horrors she left behind. "There was no freedom to speak.

We could not go and come as we pleased. And Lollcry Delayed Because of the Fourth of July holiday the weekly drawings of the Michigan Lottery will be held on Friday this week instead of Thursday. The drawings will be at 9:45 a.m. Friday at the Cork Pine Fairgrounds in Vassar. Because of a typographical error, an incorrect telephone number for the Franklin-Wright Settlements of Detroit was printed in' Wednesday's Action Line column.

The correct number is 579-1000. I expected fingers il over tne place. You know what? Nothing, except a few powder marks on his fingers and an expression slightly more dazed than usual. The dolt was so relaxed all the force simply gushed around his lucky hand. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY from Bill Radak of Trenton: Summer is the best time of year to study the halter ego.

It's the Freedom Award for Howe Family 1 UI1 1 MB IIJWIII II i lmmfWm-W r- m-d, BY SUSAN AGER Prtt Prut Sltlt Wrlttr Amid bagpipes and bands and lots of red-white-and-blue oom-pah, Gordie Howe and his family received the Freedom Award of the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival Wednesday with few words, but many autographs. The luncheon presentation put the family in the ranks with Tohn F. Kennedy, Arthur Goldberg, Lowell Thomas, Lester Pearson, the American astronauts and others who have received it for their contributions to international friendship, understanding and peace. BUT THE MAN who wore the No. 9 jersey for the Detroit Red Wings for 25 years, his wife, Colleen, and his eldest son, Marty, did not appear overwhelmed by the hoopla.

"I've never been much of one to show my feelings," Howe, 46, admitted quietly to the merry audience of 250 civic and corporate leaders in thanking the festival organizers for the award. Howe, who now wears the No. 9 jersey for the Houston Aeros hockey team and gets five times as much money for doing so, told the audience in the ballroom of the Veterans Memorial Building that the reason he left Detroit for Houston a year ago "parallels the Freedom Festival, in that in Houston I could do something with my friends and my sons that I enjoy so much. "I left Detroit with no animosity. Though I was unhappy, I wasn't necessarily mad," he said of his decision.

Marty, 20, was the only Howe child at the luncheon, standing taller than both his parents and appearing rather bewildered by the speeches, toasts and standing ovations the Howes received. "I really had nothing to do with receiving this," Marty admitted, "All I did here was play football, skate and play hockey." THE OTHER HOWE children Mark, 19, Cathy, 15, and Murray, 13 stayed at the Howe summer home at Bear Lake near Grayling. Both Marty and Mark signed four year contracts with the Aeros last year for $125,000 a year. BELATED TIP OF THE TOPPER to Earl Blinn, president of the Detroit Jaycees, who dashed to the aid of the Children's Aid Society Foster Families picnic around the Belle Isle band shell. A real problem, especially with a bunch of thirsty kids.

The promiised pop didn't show up. Blinn rented a U-Haul truck bright and early, rounded up 500 oottles the stuff, thought of the dry ice and openers, and even helped pick up afterwards. Mayor Orville Hubbard won't be pleased to discover his beloved Dearborn has been renamed. This sacrilage happens in a handsome catalogue in both English and Rumanian concerning the paintings of Gheorge Innescu, who is among a group of European artists whose work is on display at the L. L.

Cazan Gallery in Livonia through July 27. Among his credits are "two works at the Continental Arts Gallery, Dearbarm, U.S.A." It might have been worse, Mr. Mayor. Could have read Dearbarn. Friend of Mine who's been on the wagon for 16 months was complaining about the dreariness of it all.

"At least you feel better," he was told. "Most of the time," he agreed, "but that makes it all the worse. "Before, when I felt bad, I could always blame it on a hangover. Now, whenever I get the slightest ache or pain I start to worry and run to the doctor. "Going on this damn wagon has made a hypochondriac out of me." TODAY'S WORST JOKE comes from Frank Beckman.

Seems there was this corn beef and pastrami tycoon in New York who decided to go international. So he opened a new deli in India. T-'" HI I fcllfll II IIT a Fmm( PrtHs Photo The Howes Colleen, Marty and Gordie enjoy a during the luncheon Burroughs Corp. president Paul S. Mirabito, who presented of his father's clothes are red, white, and blue, the team eolers the gold plaque to the Howes, said the family "symbolized the of the Aeros.

spirit of the Freedom Festival through their enthusiasm and Ralph T. McElvenny, retired chairman of Michigan Consoli- zest for living as well as their dedication to community ser- dated Gas received a special award at the luncheon fcr vice many years of service to the Freedom Festival, begun in 19j9 as Howe who was born in Floral, Saskatchewan, wore a a joint Detroit-Windsor friendship celebration. McElvenny, an red-white-and-blue plaid jacket to the luncheon. Marty said most avid duck hunter, thanked the audience with some duck calls..