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39 2 a.m. 37 ON GUARD FOR 138 YEARS 139 No. 185 Wednesday, November 5, 1969 of Closest Contests in History Wins ayor Vote Turnout Sets a Record 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. BMWHMMIMIIIIJllJIIWIMiWnMMnniWIMM WM MM 11 ji MM Illl ti -3 Wi' ace Itesutts Mayor 1,109 out of 1,111 precincts Roman S. Gribbs 257,312 Richard H.

Austin 250,020 Mary V. Beck 1,931 Council Nine to be elected 1,109 out of 1,111 precincts Denotes incumbent More picture on Back Page BY CLARK HOYT Free Press Politics Writer Wayne County Sheriff Roman S. Gribbs, a moderate who promised an all-out fight against crime in the streets, was elected mayor of Detroit Tuesday, defeating black County Auditor Richard H. Austin in one of the closest elections in the city's history. With only two precincts of 1,111 unreported, Gribbs, with 50.49 percent of the vote, had a narrow margin over Austin, who carried 49.3 percent.

Councilman Mary V. Beck, a write-in candidate running on a "law and order" platform, received negligible support. Gribbs' margin was 257,312 votes to 250,020 in virtually complete, returns. What have cops got against Red Wings fans? They towed my car from Olympia and the only sign I could see was a twisted around thing that said "No Parking by Police Order." Is it legal for them to take cars without warning people? E.C.S., Detroit Legal and profitable. Police pay two companies $3 for each car hauled in, get $25 from the owner before they give it back.

But scooping up cars around Olympia may not be cricket: Department of Streets and Traffic, which usually tells police where to move in, didn't know the Second Precinct was at work around the stadium, will talk with them about the lousy parking situation and maybe easing regulations. Olympia packs people in about 100 nights a year. For average hockey crowd of 14,000, stadium lot holds only 1,000 cars and parking lots in the area another 4,000 at most. Help! The house I -just bought has a live hand grenade in the basement. I dont want to panic my new neighbors.

Can you find someone who'll take it Vol. One away quietly? E. De- troit. Bomb squad from Sel-fridge Air Force Base took it away VERY quietly. What you thought was a hand grenade is a Japanese gunnery fuse used in World War II to set off artillery shells.

Ordnance specialist Sgt. James Wilson says fuse isn't as powerful as a hand grenade but Federal Gun Control Act of 1968 makes it illegal to keep' unregistered war trophy weapons even if they're deactivated. Penalty: Up to $10,000 fine or 10 years in prison. However, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division will get war Line Free Press Photo Ay Chief Photographer TONY SPINA his wife. Katlierine-iubilaiit over victory in HERE.DAD,,.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE EASEMENT! muni i jnmrs. and Hood Win Council Seats Ravitz 315,259 Hood .265,665 Levin 219,098 Eberhard 234,529 Tindal 220,019 Rogell 215,447 Van Antwerp 210,421 Wierzbickl 205,919 Browne 192,203 Wise 189,897 Kelley 186,564 Wierszewski 158,660 Carey 152,677 Frazer 142,651 Henderson 137,818 Ryan 133,035 Slaton 107,180 Garret 78,442 a hard-fought race are black. Five are outspoken liberals and Councilmen Rogell- and Van Antwerp often cross traditional liberal-conservative lines. HOOD SAID before the election that he was excited about working with a liberal-dominated council. Both Levin and Eberhard are young activists who have taken strong hands for integrated housing, downtown development and streamlining of city government.

Browne will become the sixth liberal on the council. Browne, a financial expert, speaks softly authoritatively on bugetary problems, police community relations and other urban difficulties. Richard F. Carey, a fireman supported by right wing groups, was given a chance of election, according to pre-olec-Turn to Page 13A, Column 1 I jf Roman Gribbs and Lindsay Re-Elected NY Mayor Carl Stokes re-elected in Cleveland. Page 12A.

NEW YORK ayor' John V. Lindsay won re-election Tuesday as a Liberal and Independent, handily defeating Democratic and Republican rivals. The tall, handsome, 47-year-old mayor finished far ahead of the short, scrappy city comptroller, Mario A. Procaccino. blican Conservative State Sen.

John J. Marchi trailed. THE MAYOR ran far ahead in his Manhattan base and was about even with Procaccino in the four other boroughs of the city. Returns from 2,201 of 5,295 election districts gave Lindsay 389,291, Proccacino 277,511, and Marchi 153,494. Lindsay and Marchi were running behind their showing in the pre-election Daily News poll, while Procaccino was doing better.

It indicated a last-minute shift of the anti-Lindsay vote from Marchi to Procaccino. Procaccino and Marchi said they were "law and order" candidates, but the issue had lost its zip since the primary, Turn to Page 12A, Column 8 For the second time in his long political career, Austin lost a breathtakingly close election. In 1964, he lost to U.S. Rep. John Conyers by less than 40 votes the Democratic nomination to Congress from Detroit's First District.

Mkss Beck, who was dnoe thought to have heild the balance in the election, polled only about one -third ot one percent of the vote. AUSTIN CONCEDED to Gribbs shortly after 1 a.m. and promised to cooperate with the new administration. "I will never cease to work for a better Detroit," Austin told a disappointed throng of about 3,000 supporters jammed into his election night headquarters at the Detroit Hilton Hotel. Austin his wife Ida at his side said: "I cannot regard this as an inglorious defeat This campaign brought together forces that never before coalesced in this city." He accepted defeat gracefully, with a smile and a strong, clear voice, and said: "I hope everyone in Detroit accepts the outcome in the same spirit.

"You have waged with me a magnificent battle, but we now must accept the verdict of the majority of Detroit voters." WITHIN MINUTES after Austin's concession statement, Gribbs read a victory statement to cheering supporters at his Pick Fort Shelby Hotel headquarters. "I pledge to you' my unrelenting efforts, and I assure you I will be mayor of all the people," Gribbs said. He added: "We will have unity." Gribbs, surrounded by his jubilant family, said: "Wo have conducted a campaign Turn to Page 13A, Column 1 showed Austin got no more than 15 percent. That was almost double the vote he received from whites in the primarya strong showing but not strong enough. The winning combiniation for Gribbs was shaped from these factors: He was a racial moderate, and a white sheriff, with both the badge and the political, respectability of a law enforcement mantle in a city WWWWWWWWIW souvenirs destroyed with no questions asked.

Call them at 226-7300. What were the odds on the New York Mels winning the World Series before the National League play-offs began? My friends say lucky guys who staked out the I Mets collected 10 to 1. J.C.G., Melvindale. Not by a long shot. Clean-up was 5 to 1.

Las Vegas Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder ranked slow-starting Mets third to take it all. Favorite was Baltimore at 12 to 5, Atlanta next at 9 to 2 and Minnesota fourth at 7 to 1. If all four teams were rated equal, odds would be 3 to 1 for each, minus bookie's rake-off. Sweepstakes went to fans who forked over for Mets before the season started. If you'd put $5 on the Mets as division champs back then, and parlayed your windings through the play-offs and World Series, you'd lhave won $385.

Gribbs Will Need the Help Of Austin to Unify City Action Ravitz Top 2 BY LADD NEUMAN Fret Press Stiff Writer Dr. Mel J. Ravitz, 45, a white liberal college professor, and the Rev. Nicholas Hood, 46, a black liberal minister, appeared to have won the top two seats Tuesday in the nine-man Common Council race. Ravitz was elected president.

He was expected to receive more than 60 percent of the total vote. Hood appeared to have been elected president pro tempore, gaining more than 50 percent of the vote and linishing just ahead of a political newcomer, 35-year-old attorney Carl M. Levin. Another newcomer, the Rev. David Eberhard, 35, was running fourth, followed closely by Council incumbents William Rogell, Robert Tindal, Philip Van Antwerp and Anthony Wierzbickl.

IN AN EXTREMELY close race for the ninth council eat, Ernest C. Browne 43, a city budget analyst, was elected by about 3,500 votes over former councilman Blanche Parent Wise. With all but two precincts reporting, Browne had 192,203 votes to 189,897 for Mrs. Wise and 186,564 for Jack Kelley, the city's deputy commission- after writing a note admitting the Lennon slaying. In their apartment at American Broadcasting Company studios, where they tape a weekly variety show with Jimmy Durante, Janet and Diane Lennon recounted the tragic events that led to their father's death.

The oldest and youngest of the four singing sisters, they generally speak for the family. Here is what they said: Janet: "He (Major) started writing to Peggy back in 1962, when he was In an institution in Colorado. Right from the start he seemed to believe that he was Peggy's husband, and he would ask questions like, 'How's our At first we weren't alarmed. They wer ruckoo letters, but Turn to Page 2A, Column 4 Clerk 1,109 out of 1,111 precincts Edwards 305,525 Smith 139,399 Treasurer Denotes incumbent 1,109 out of 1,111 precincts Temple 248,208 Rutherford 190,393 Ballot Questions 1,109 out of 1,111 precincts Yes 273,715 No 91,616 Yes 282,415 No 80,288 that had experienced a destructive black riot. He made crime in the streets for many whites, a nagging, deep fear his key issue, and hammered day after day on it.

in the closing days of the campaign especially in the last weekend Gribbs, in television debates with Austin, appeared more specific on Issues and programs. That, Turn to Page 13A, Column 4 Movie Guide 8-9D Names and Faces 10D Obituaries 16A Sports 1-5D Stock Markets 8-9B Television 6D Want Ads 10-15O Women's Pages 1-5C HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6300 Stalked by Killer Lennons Tell of Terroi For years I've been telling my friends about Guy Fawkes Day, which we celebrate Nov. 5 in England. I remember whooping it up as a kid, but don't remember who the heck Guy Fawkes was. B.

Royal Oak. Fellow who was supposed to light the fuse to blow up King James I and Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605. Roman Catholic zealots who hated the king's anti-Catholic laws aimed to "blow the Scots back to Scotland;" rented a house next to Parliament; dug a tunnel and hid 3,200 pounds of gunpowder under the House of Lords. Somebody squealed, cache was discovered and Fawkes was the first one caught.

Tortured, he turned stool pigeon, then went to the gallows. British kids celebrate the plan being botched up by running through the streets, throwing bobbies into fountains, and setting off stink bombs and fireworks. Ten years ago, Prince Charles helped burn his headmaster in effigy. Mel Ravitz er of building and safety engineering. Browne, a liberal, becomes the third Negro member of the council.

Informed of his victory, Ravitz said "If Browne makes it, that will be a good council. I am personally pleased. The council presidency offers a challenge in a leadership role on resolving urban problems, and I am prepared to work hard to meet that ohaililenge." Ravitz's job pays $19,500 a year; other t'ouncilnien are paid $17,500. Among the eight candidates who appeared to have been elected, six are white and two JANET (top) and Diane told their tory. IIIIWIMP JMII III rl fa- if lift fc A fir BY DAVID COOPER City-County Bureau Chief Quietly, and with little fanfare the majority of Detroit's white voters went to the polls Tuesday and cast their ballots for Roman Gribbs.

The voting lines were short; there was little campaign hoopla at the polls. Gribbs received about 85 percent of the city's white vote, and about four percent of the vote of the black community. A WEEK before the election, pollster Frederick Currier of Market Opinion Research had found 18 percent of the vote still undecided, and the undecideds were largely white. If Currier was right and perhaps many whites just were not telling pollsters what was deep inside them then as many as 100,000 voters made up their minds in the last Week of the campaign. Richard Austin, who had 1iokh1 to overcome the politi-l disadvantage of being a Negro and become Detroit's first black mayor, knew he needed at least 20 percent of the white vote to win.

Analysis of selected returns 4 i Action Line HOLLYWOOD (AP) Two of the singing Lennon Sisters told Tuesday about the seven years of frightening letters and mysterious visits from a tall man with strange eyes who eventually shot their father dead, then killed himself. They talked of terror after their father's slaying, when 22 family members lived in one house under guard while police hunted the killer, and told of pity for the gunman when he was found dead by suicide. The father, William Lennon, was shot and killed by a rifleman Aug. 12 at a golf course. Witnesses Identified him as Marvin Major, who called himself Chet Young.

On Oct. 10 Major's body was found near Sonora, Cal. Police said he ad killed himself can I get a waterproof address book for my brother-in-law in Vietnam? Monsoon season is washing out his pen D. Westland. in the mail.

Nobody manufactures 'em but Action Line had one made to order from special plastic waterproof paper. Texoprint, made by Kimberly-Clark, takes pencil, ink or magic marker writing. Stuff is used mostly for manuals, account books, posters and placards (in case it rains on your parade). You can get it at Lewis Artists Supply, 6408 Woodward. By next week they'll have 17'" by 22 Va" sheets for 20 cenjs.

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