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METRO Oil Price Cloud Frightens Market See Page 5, Section 15c 6-Day Home Delivery 90c mlxwl mttt WINDY Partly Cloudy Itigh 40-44 Low 20-25 Mi ni DtUllt on Pag 7-D ON GUARD FOR 145 YEARS 1976, Deloil Free Press, Inc. Vol. 146 No. 200 Saturday, November 20, 1976 $1.5 MILLION BAIL POSTED Pat Hearst Goes Home uu yttm Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich.

48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. 1 Sr ivC- I 4 i if 4 5 sri From AP and UPI SAN FRANCISCO A vibrant, smiling Patricia Hearst was freed on $1.5 million bail Friday and went home for the first time since her bizarre kidnapping 33 months ago.

Miss Hearst, looking healthier than in the past, appeared at a brief news conference in the Federal Building where she was convicted of armed bank robbery last March. Her attorney, Al Johnson, said she would not answer questions "for legal reasons" and then nodded to Miss Hearst to make a statement. "It would be a lot better if I were home right now I'd like to get this over with so I can go home," she said. Smiling at reporters, she walked briskly out of the courthouse press room. The 22-year-old Miss Hearst, who has spent the last 14 months in prison, was released by U.S.

District Judge William H. Orrick on bail pending appeal of her bank robbery conviction. She also awaits the Jan. 10 start of a trial in Los Angeles on state charges of robbery and The judge also denied a motion by Miss Hearst's attorneys for a new trial on the bank robbery charge. Her father, publisher Randolph A.

Hearst, posted $1 million bond in the federal bank robbery case here. A day earlier, he had put up $500,000 on the state case in Los Angeles. Wearing a dark pin-striped vest and a white blouse, Miss Hearst was nervous but bouncy after her release. Federal marshals who drove her from a federal prison in San Diego earlier in the day described her mood as one of elation. When she was reunited with her parents at the Federal Building, her mother said, "All my prayers are answered." After the news conference, Miss Hearst was escorted by private security guards to a car caravan.

She arrived shortly afterward at her parents' fashionable Nob Hill apartment in downtown San Francisco. Judge Orrick, who had sentenced Miss Hearst to seven years in prison, explained that he allowed her to go free on bail because she "has strong family ties" and did not have a prior criminal record. He said she "is a person of strong character and the conclusion of the numerous reports made with respect to her mental condition is that she is able and competent. She has resided all her life in the community." The high bond was required because of the circumstances, the judge said, noting that she had been a fugitive for many months after the bank robbery. Orrick's ruling said if any of the conditions of her release are violated "a warrant for the arrest of the defendant will be issued immediately upon such violation and the maximum penalties will be imposed." The government had argued that Miss Hearst might flee if she were released.

But Orrick said he does not believe she is a flight risk. As conditions of her release, Orrick ordered that Miss Hearst live with her parents; that she not leave California without prior approval of the court; Please turn to Page 8A, Col. I 'I --5 In September, I gave LaBelle's Tree Service in Mt. Clemens a $200 deposit to cut down a tree the city ordered me to remove from my yard. It was supposed to be cut the following week and I was to pay another $200.

The tree's still standing, the city's pressuring me and all I get from LaBelle's are promises. What should I do? W.M., Detroit. Get another tree cutter. Money paid to Mt. Clemens axman Tom LaBelle was returned after calls from Action Line and Michael Zervas of Macomb County Prosecutor's office.

Zervas, investigator for Consumer Fraud Division, contacted LaBelle at request of Action Line. Zervas said he's had to nudge LaBelle on other occasions. LaBelle said "it's only been once." Woodsman was out of town on job for past couple weeks and he told Action Line adverse weather forced postponement of tree cutting in September. LaBelle was peeved with complaint, claimed you two agreed work could be held up till late fall when grass was dormant since job necessitated that he drive equipment over neighbor's lawn. AP Photo PATRICIA HEARST, facing the press: I'd like to get this over with so I can go home." UAW Ends Mini trike My husband loves to ice skate but he has to go alone all the time because I can't find skates to fit me.

I wear a size 12 shoe. I've tried sporting goods and shoe stores without any luck. Can you find a pair for Detroit Problem's been iced. Solution to slippery dilemma can be found at Griffin's Sport Shop in Livonia. Owner Bob Griffin told Action Line that your best bet would be to buy a pair of men's figure skates A Long Talks Brin a Pac fitted with white boot covers.

He said you can't tell difference between this setup and women's white skates. Boot covers, or "Gaitors," are standard item for Ice Capades performers who have all kinds Costliest Ever, Company Says BY RALPH ORR, SUSAN BROWN GREGORY SKWIRA AND JAMES DEWEY Free Press Staff Writers General Motors Corp. and the UAW tentatively agreed Friday on a three-year contract for 390,000 workers. GM said the pact was the most costly in the corporation's history. Announcement of the agreement at 12:30 p.m.

ended a 12-hour mini-strike of 80,000 UAW workers at 16 key GM plants in seven It was the shortest strike in the 39 years the union has been bargaining with the Big Three auto companies. If the settlement is ratified by rank-and-file workers, it will end this year's collective bargaining with the nation's largest carmakers. Talks with American Motors Corp. have been in recess pending settlements at GM, the Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp.

George B. Morris GM vice-president and the company's chief negotiator, said the settlement will cost GM $5.8 billion of colors to be co-ordinatea with their outfits. Some of first ice skates were made from animal bones. Blades were made from walrus tusks and Chinese skaters even used cornstalks to help them glide over ice. Skating first became popular in Netherlands because it was easiest way to get around on frozen rivers and canals.

Dutch skates were made of wood and iron and were strapped on to shoes. The Detroit Metropolitan Ford Dealers Association bought the remaining tickets for tomorrow's Detroit Lions football game so it could be televised. We'd like Action Line to help us find some people who'd prefer to see the game in person instead of over the tube. Can you? M.C., Dearborn. Plenty of youngsters won't mind trek to stadium since they don't have to fight traffic and parking.

Action Line found it rather easy to distribute 100 ducats to Detroit Lions-Chicago Bears tilt at Pontiac Silverdome. Oakland County's Children's Village will have contingent at game as well as Franklm-Wnjiht Settlement House in Detroit. Other recipients were gr up Arbor Heights Treatment Center in Ann Arbor. Dealers purchase of remaining 1,138 tickets Thursday will make this Sunday's 1 p.m. game a test to be televised locally.

over three years. UAW'' Xr2X' Action Line AP Photo Douglas Hicks (center), a former U.S. soldier, C-rations to Mrs. Sondermann during a reunion kisses Karl Sondermann and hands a package of 31 years after Hicks befriended them in Germany. EX-GI 'HELPED US FORGET FEAR' In April I bought two season tickets for concerts at Pine Knob in Clarkston.

Two of the concerts were canceled so I sent in the tickets for those performances for a refund. Well that was two months ago and I still don't have my money. I've sent a couple follow-up letters and gotten no response to them either. What's going on? K.W., Saginaw. You won't be left holding empty bag.

Instead of refund you'll get four passes for two concerts during next summer's schedule. Decision was made after Action Line called Pine Knob Music Theater office in Birmingham. Spokesman said he couldn't give refund since tickets never arrived in their mail. He did receive two letters asking where money was, but Pine Knob got lots of those letters, without tickets. He said all refund requests accompanied by tickets have been taken care of.

However, some requests sent to Pine Knob's Clarkston address take two to three months to be rerouted to off season destination. Any others tickets should be sent to P.O. Box P1033, Birmingham 48012, and better send them registered. Germans Rejoin Old Friend UPIDAN DMITRUK The man, Karl Sondermann, was recuperating from a battle injury in Russia, but he had work as a locksmith in a town near Frankfurt. But "the money then, it was worthless," recalls Eleanor.

"But he helped us. He helped us forget the fear," she said of Hicks. THAT WAS 1945. Today the roles are reversed. The Sonder-manns no longer are destitute in fact, they are among the wealthiest families in Europe.

They live on a 500-acre estate in West Germany with its own deer preserve. Karl's factory exports kitchenware to 50 countries. Hicks, no longer the conqueror, lives in a small brick home in Arlington, where he supports his family on his modest wages as a meat cutter. But the friendship that began during 1945 continued through the years, and finally resulted in a reunion in this country. The Sondermanns remembered the help Hicks gave them in Please turn to Page 16A, Col.

1 WASHINGTON (AP) "I'm just an old country boy from Culpeper, says Douglas Hicks. "But I know one thing. When people are hungry, you help them out." And so it was in 1945 when Hicks, then a young American military policemen in Germany, came across a German couple huddled on a park bench in Frankfurt, the man partially blind, both destitute. They were terribly frightened. It was after curfew, and Hicks was the law victor's law.

It was a moment still etched in Eleanor Sondermann's memory: "I was shocked and had so much fear, because of all the propaganda we had heard about the Americans. "And then he smiled and he was so nice and we liked him from the first minute AND HICKS DID NOT enforce the law that night. Instead, he risked court-martial, defying military regulations against fraternizing with the Germans, by giving the couple food, plus cigarets and coffee to barter on the black market. "We have agreed to the most expensive wage and benefit package in General Motors' history," Morris said. He said it will raise labor costs by nearly $500 a car, but dodged questions whether it would touch off a round of auto price increases.

"Considering anticipated inflation rates, the labor cost for the average GM hourly employe will have increased by more than $3.75 per hour by 1979, bringing GM's total hourly labor cost wages and benefitsfor the average hourly employe to more than $15 in the third year of the agreement," Morris said. He said GM hopes to recover some of the cost through improved productivity. UAW PRESIDENT Leonard Woodcock and Vice-President Irving Bluestone, head of the union's GM department, heralded the agreement as "an excellent settlement that will provide UAW members and their families with greater job and income security during the next three years." They said the tentative settlement follows closely the pattern established at Ford after a 28-day strike last month. "Other important issues Involving pe i i problems faced by General Motors workers also were resolved successfully," the two union leaders said. The settlement came after an exhausting 27-hour, non- Please turn to Page 12A, Col.

1 Dear Readers Action Line editors consider every request you send us. We publish the most interesting and helpful answers. We regret that we cannot answer or acknowledge individual requests. GEORGE B. MORRIS most expensive wage and benefit package in General Motors' history." GM Pledge: Hands Off Organizing BY RALPH ORR Free Press Labor Writer General Motors Corp.

agreed Friday to a hands-off policy when the UAW attempts to organize hourly workers in non-union GM plants. The resolution of what the UAW had flagged as a "priority issue" was reached in. an exchange of letters as the two sides wrapped up their new national contract. It was the last issue set THE QUESTION According to the odds-makers Michigan is the favorite over Ohio State Saturday in the battle for the Big Ten football title. Do you agree with the oddsmakers? Heavy Snoring May Cause Heart Failure, Doctor Says HOW YOU VOTED YES, 73.6 percent.

COMMENTS: "Michigan is the better team this year" "It won't even be close" "Go Blue" "Michigan is going to destroy the Bucks" "I can't wait to hear Woody cry after the game" "Rose Bowl, here we come." NO, 26.4 percent. COMMENTS: "U-M can't win at Ohio State" "No way, the Bucks are better" "Michigan will choke again" "Ohio State will whip the pants off "em" "Woody has always been able to out-coach Bo." "This means a person has 10 million chances for his heart to stop during the year." Price Rise Smallest in 7 Months WASHINGTON (AP) -Inflation continued its cooling trend in October with consumer prices rising only 0.3 percent, the smallest advance in seven months. The Labor Department, in its price report Friday, said last month's increase would have been even smaller had it not been for bigger price tags on 1977 model cars, up a seasonally adjusted 1.4 percent. There was also good news for the average wage earner, whose paycheck gained added purchasing power for the first time since July. Real spendable earnings that is, what's left after deductions for taxes and adjusted Please turn to Page 16A, Col.

1 ANN ARBOR (UPI) -Loud, heavy snoring can be dangerous to your health, a specialist on sleep disorders says. In severe cases, it can even make your heart stop. Dr. William C. Dement, director of the sleep disorders clinic at Stanford University, told a physicians conference at the University of Michigan that afflicted persons never really get a good night's rest.

He said that in the case of one of every 1,000 adult males who snore heavily, it is a danger signal that his heart may stop while he is asleep. "If you think you have such a patient, ask the spouse," Dement told the doctors. "The patient himself usually is not aware of his snoring and breathing problems while tled at the Bargaining table to end the short strike at GM. GM PLEDGED itself to "a posture of neutrality" when UAW organizers make their pitch to production and maintenance workers in non-union GM plants. The UAW had claimed that GM had not always taken that stance, particularly at the firm's new installations in the South.

In turn, the union agreed "to conduct itself in a manner which neither demeans the corporation as an organi- Plcase turn to Page 12A, Col. 1 Complain of extreme daytime sleepiness and fatigue. Are found by doctors in a sleep laboratory to have drops in blood oxygen and heartbeat irregularities during sleep. Dement said these persons never get a good night's sleep because they awaken partially TOMORROW'S QUESTION The state is suing a Jackson Prison inmate, who has a $6000 bank account, for room and board costs under a 1935 law that says prisoners who can afford it must pay their living expenses. Do you think prisoners who have the means should have to pay for their keep? asleep, but his bed partner is very much aware of it." Comparing the phenomenon with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Dement said a snoring disorder known as "upper airway sleep apnea" momentary failure to breathe is a real threat to a minority of adult males who: Are heavy "gasping" snor-ers loud snoring, punctuated by periods of silence followed by a gasping for breath.

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