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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 etwtt iftee kB6 today's chuckle College student: "It was a lousy date. She disagreed with my bumper sticker and I disagreed with her T-shirt." Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Monday, May 26, 1980 (tipoffff This was a weekend to remember At the cemeteries, pride and quiet reflection Ft as i sr Free Press Pholo by RICHARD Pam Ellen holds her 1 5-month-old son, Daniel, as they sit on the deck amid the sails, left. Above, Robert Bigelow helps his sons Christopher, left, and Robert plant geraniums at the headstone of their great-grandmother's grave. Free Press Photo by WILLIAM ARCHIE On the beach, picnics and dozing in the sun Detroiter strikes gold with a winning screenplay A short time ago, in a city far, far away, a former Detroit man wrote the screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back." Lawrence Kasdan, a University of Michigan graduate, worked for W.B.

Doner in Southfield as an advertising copywriter and then headed for Hollywood for fame and fortune. He got it. The 31-year-old is now known in Tinsel Town as the hottest young scriptwriter around. "Empire" was his Kasdan first piece of work to reach the screen. The next will be "Raiders of the Lost Ark," to be directed by Steven Spielberg.

The joke's on Reagan at Republican headquarters Even presidential candidate Ronald Reagan can be the target of ribbing by folks in the Republican National Committee office in Washington. The joke circulating there Friday: Do you know what's flat and glows? Iran, after Reagan gets elected. Some biblical advice for an MSU appointee Much has been made of Gov. Milliken's recent appointment of dyed-in-the-wool University of Michigan graduate Peter B. Fletcher to a vacancy on the Michigan State University Board of Trustees.

It even drove some folks to' reach for the Good Book. For example, Fleming Barber, past president of the President's Club at U-M, sent this telegram to fellow alumnus Fletcher: "Say it isn't so. Read Ephesians The biblical passage reads, "Have done with spite and passion, all angry shouting and cursing and bad feeling of every kind. Be generous to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you." GOP watch Delegates will be cruising down the Detroit River Charles Tompkins is planning to give delegates to the Republican National Convention complimentary two-hour boat rides on the Detroit River, originating from the Detroit Yacht Club. Tompkins, chairman of the South Dakota delegation, has about 40 privately owned boats lined up for the event.

So far, about 22 delegation leaders have signed up their groups for the excursions, which will be followed by cocktails and dinner at the Yacht Club. Tompkins wants about 100 more boat owners to volunteer. Those interested should call 894-2222 weekdays between 7 a.m. and midnight. Compiled by DONNA URSCHEL 4t yr i UNLIKE KING, HOWEVER, most of the visitors were closer to home.

"We are getting a lot of travel because people are staying in Michigan rather than taking longer trips," said Marcia Danner of the auto club, predicting a 1 0 percent increase in the number of people on the road this year compared with last. "Last year at this time the weather was bad and there were gas shortages. This year, the weather is good and there is plenty of gas around, but it is more expensive. People are sticking closer to home." Ms. Danner said that trend was most evident in southeastern Michigan, where parks filled up by Friday.

Tom Lutostanski, a spokesman for Metropolitan Beach, said park officials hadn't counted the number of people there, but agreed that it was a busy day. "It's a beautiful day," he said. "There are lots of picnickers and lots of boaters." off -road vehicles gash river crossings By SUSAN MORSE Free Press Staff Writer For those who chose Sunday to follow the more somber of the Memorial Day weekend's traditions, it was not a day of mourning but of pride and reflection. In the serenity of some of Detroit's oldest and most stately cemeteries, families placed flags at headstones or worked quietly alongside each other to plant flowers at grave sites. THREE GENERATIONS OF the Wilkinson family gathered at Evergreen Cemetery to honor the memory of the woman who was respectively mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to them.

While the youngest generation, aged one and three, played under the towering elms, their father planted begonias and lilies of the valley. The rest of the family stood quietly in private thought. The family placed a small American flag at the grave of Hosanna Wilkinson, a British citizen who lived in America land of hot water," she called it) only a short time before her death in 1957, but the flag was a personal commemoration. "It's just a remembrance," said her daughter, Kathleen Lipski of Detroit. "She loved America.

She really did." AT WOODLAWN CEMETERY, Nancy Der-Stepanian of Dearborn Heights gave her own reasons for planting a flag along with flowers at her grandmother's grave. "It's one way of symbolizing a lost member of the family, I think I suppose it's just a token." A woman who identified herself only as Valerie from Dearborn placed a flag at the grave of her father, a World War II veteran who died in November, with an expression of patriotism she credited to him. "He always had the flag flying as long as he lived," she said. "I'm very patriotic, like my dad. I love my country and wish other people would realize how lucky we are LEE An old soldier remembers and prays for dead comrades.

Page IB. riverbank and wore away the thin grass cover, allowing torrents of rainwater to do their destructive work. "The ORVs just love the pipeline companies," Andrus said. "Wherever the pipelines go, the ORVs can get in and begin to cut their own side trails." A FLIER CIRCULATING in the Kalkaska area earlier this month publicized the "Baja Pipeline Enduro," a Memorial Day weekend race along the pipeline routes for four-wheel-drive vehicles. DNR officials tracked the fliers to their source and See PIPELINES, Page 9A Ex-salesman charged in Caddy theft By BRIAN FLANIGAN Free Press Staff Writer An Allen Park man was charged Sunday with embezzling $3,200 and stealing a $21,000 El Dorado while working as a salesman at a Cadillac dealership in Detroit.

Richard J. Krause, 20, of Pelham Road, embezzled the money from two prospective car buyers while a salesman at Dreisbach Sons Cadillac, 24600 Grand River, according to police investigators. After entering a not guilty plea for Krause on the embezzlement and car theft charges Sunday, Visiting Recorder's Court Judge J. Patrick Denis ordered him held in the Wayne County Jail on. $3,500 bond, pending a June 4 preliminary exami-i nation.

Police said Krause, after taking the the new Cadillac and drove to California, police said. On Feb. 22, police said, Krause, who had been working at the dealership for about a month, accepted a $1,000 cash down payment from a Detroit man for a 1978 Cadillac. On March 10, Krause accepted another cash payment of $2,000 from the man, police said. Krause also accepted $200 from another prospective customer, police investigators said.

In all three instances, police were told by Tommy Fuerst, Dreisbach's sales manager, that Krause did not submit receipts for (he money. Shortly after receiving the $2,000 payment on March 1 0, police investigators said, Krause said he was sick and left. Then, Fuerst discovered that a 1980 El Dorado worth $21,000 was missing from the dealership's lot. Krause was later arrested in Diego and extradited back to Michigan, police said. SOME PEOPLE WERE enjoying an old-fashioned Memorial Day weekend family get-together.

On one corner of the Metropolitan Beach lawns, about a dozen people of all ages covered five blankets and at least an equal number of chairs. They had a mountain of food, fishing poles, a baseball bat, a Frisbee, a camera, a radio. "That's all the usual picnic equipment," said Phil Modzelewski, 26, who went to the gathering with his wife, Debbie, 24, and their two children. "We do this every Memorial Day weekend there are two families here, and then the children in the families grew up and had families and, well, now it's three generations. There are some friends out here, too." Despite the higher number of people on the road, the auto club said, the number of traffic deaths during the first half of the 78-hour holiday 15 was about the same as last year.

or wider and slash through the forests like preparatory work for a freeway. Andrus stood on a 50-foot-high bank over the Manistee, a beautiful place where the river makes a wide bend through a meadow. He stood on a narrow road worn through the trees within the last year or two by four-wheel-drive vehicles. At his feet was a 100-foot-wide gully. The earth had washed into the water and reduced the width of the river by a third.

"You never saw this when you just had a few fishermen and hunters coming in here," Andrus said. He said the gully resulted from off-road-vehicle enthusiasts using a campsite a few feet away. The campers scrambled up and down the Free Press Pholo by RICHARD LEE By SALLY SMITH Free Press Staff Writer Oliver King, 49, stood on the sand at Metropolitan Beach, watching people at play. At his feet, dozens of sun-worshipers dozed on blankets. Others played volleyball or cards or listened to the radio.

King, a holiday weekend visitor from Pittsburgh, liked what he saw. "This is a nice place," he said, sweeping one arm in an arc. "We've got nothing like this in Pittsburgh we've just got swimming pools, that's all. People are lucky to have this, there's plenty of room. If you can't find a place to put a blanket here, you're in trouble." King, who was visiting his son and daughter-in-law, was one of thousands enjoying a balmy Memorial Day weekend across Michigan Sunday.

According to the Automobile Club of Michigan, most of the state's 54 parks were filled with people in hard pursuit of suntans and good times. Pipelines and By ERIC SHARP Free Press Lansing Staff FREDERICKS, Mich. Erosion damage from oil and gas pipelines and from off-road vehicles which follow the pipeline routes has become so severe along the upper Manistee River that the Department of Natural. Resources is considering closing several miles of land along both sides of the river to the vehicles and campers. "It's a mess, and not only the pipelines, although those routes are the worst," says DNR Director Howard Tanner, who has ordered his department to come up with a way to undo the damage.

"The worst damage seems to be caused by the Presbyterians will debate the role of women By HARRY COOK Free Press Religion Writer The 192d General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church opens its annual meeting in Detroit's Cobo Hall Tuesday. Sessions of the national gathering will run daily through June 4. Besides electing a moderator (the chief officer of the denomination), the assembly will debate a proposed change in church law that would make it mandatory for local congregations to elect women officers. The proposed change has stirred controversy among Presbyterians, who pride themselves on local autonomy. Also under challenge is a traditional Presbyterian understanding that all local church property is held in trust by the larger denomination.

CONFLICT OVER DOCTRINE has has already produced schism in Michigan with the recent break of the Tyrone Community Presbyterian Church in Fenton from the parent denomination. Richard Marshall, a lay associate pastor of the 300-member church in that Genesee County city south of Flint, said: "We left the United Presbyterian Church last November because we felt the flow of the church was away from the Bible as the sole authority. We felt we could not follow the national directive that we must have women elders. This is not according to the scriptures, as we understand them and we are bound to be faithful to the scriptures." Marshall said the Lake Huron Presbytery is suing the Tyrone church to regain possession of the building for the United Presbyterian Church. Two other Presbyterian churches, one in Bad Axe and one in Flint, have also broken from the parent denomination.

By to a a "I an to ORVs and campers. I'm looking for recommendations from our study group by the end of the month." Robert Andrus, a Grayling schoolteacher who works with the DNR in the summers as a trout habitat specialist, says the pipeline problem really began with the explosion in the popularity of off-road vehicles less than 10 years ago. HE SAYS THERE ARE more than 70 oil and gas pipeline crossings on Michigan rivers, usually in wooded areas. Although the Public Service Commission recommends that pipeline rights-of-way be only 10 to 15 feet wide, some are 100 feet wide The noise? It's just our inventor at ivork JOHN CASTINE Free Press Staff Writer To be a neighbor of Kerry McLean, one has to tolerate of the innovative fruits of his labor. For instance, once in a while the 26-year-old Southfield man revs up a pulse jet engine bolted a bicycle frame and takes it for run around the block.

Or he'll start up a 30-horse-power engine not nearly as loud as the jet mounted inside stagecoach tire, a novel one-wheeled motorcycle McLean likes to ride to see if he can keep his balance. "A majority of my neighbors don't seem to mind (the jet-powered bicycle)," McLean said. took it out for a test a couple weeks ago and got a visit from the police, though." THE SOUTHFIELD police know McLean well, he said, but they've never given him a ticket. "They (police) have seen I'm inventor and understand. They know I make mostly useful things," McLean added.

His only use for the jet bike is try to set a bicycle speed record, which McLean says would have to be done some- where like Utah's flats. "I want to but not any m.p.h.," he probably be of my mouth." McLean is He Southfield and applied to Institute but was not let that discourage HE'S THE Kerry McLean is sound off Prosecute parents who don't belt kids in? The Ingham County prosecutor has threatened to prosecute parents who fail to make sure that young children are strapped securely in cars where failure results in injury to a child. Do you think parents should be prosecuted for this reason? How you voted NO, 52 percent. COMMENTS: "Parents suffer enough as it is if their child is injured" "So who's going to watch the children if their parents are prosecuted and put in jail?" "It's none of that prosecutor's business" "Did you ever try strapping down a kid who doesn't want to be?" YES, 48 percent. COMMENTS: "Parents who don't put seat belts on their children deserve whatever they have coming to them" "I've seen far too many children wandering around freely in cars" "Parents are responsible for the safety of their children." Sound off is a non-scientific, reader opinion feature.

Today's percentages are based on approximately 185 calls. Tomorrow's question According to a recent survey, most of Americans cite rising gas prices as the reason they are driving less than a year ago. Did you curtail your driving this holiday weekend? To vote YES To vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422 astride his 30-horsepower unicycle. "Experimenting more of a full-time job than my full-time job." and works for his dad's South-field firm, which develops heating, air conditioning and electrical systems for large buildings. He said his dad used to build and experiment with aircraft.

"I learn from talking with a lot of my dad's engineers, from books and experimenting," McLean said. "Experimenting is more of a full-time job than my full-time job." McLean began building things when he was 12 years old, starting with a steam engine for See INVENTOR, Page 9A Bonneville salt go over 100 m.p.h., faster than 125 said. "If I did I'd spitting spokes out a self-taught inventor. graduated from Lathrup High School, enroll at Lawrence of Technology accepted. He doesn't him.

SON of an engineer.