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Siock Market Off Sharply See Page 7, Section Ten Cents A' ON GUARD FOR 139 YEARS Vol. 140 No. 193 Friday, November 13, 1970 WOODCOCK DENIES PACT IS INFLATIONARY AW Council Approves GM Contrac 'i. 7 i "km jL jL A Locals 9 Vote Due Nov. 21 -lL.

I YfcV- T1 it 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. Please include your mme, address and telephone number. www' I got a mail solicitation froth the Pallottine Missionaries for funds to help starving children in India and Brazil. Before I send them money, can you tell me what percentage of my donation will actually reach the starving children? G. East Jordan.

Only IRS knows for sure. And mission director Father G. J. Carich told Action Line, "as long as the church remains free and separated, it's our right not to publish balance sheets." Father Carich said that $415,844 worth of medical shipments reached India and Brazil in 1969. IRS exempts religious, nonprofit organizations from telling the public how much money they take in.

My white threads (socks) don't groove with my leather Irons (shoes). In fact, they're turning everyone off. I have to BY EDWARD SHANAHAN Pree Press Staff Writer The UAW's General Motors Council approved the new GM contract offer Thursday and sent the package along for worker ratification, expected by Nov. 21. Irving Bluestone, co-director of the union's GM Department, said the 350-member council voted 4 to 1 for Some delegates challenged this margin and contended it was closer to 3 to 1.

UAW President Leonard Woodcock said he recommended council approval although the pact fell short of his hopes. "I am not satisfied," Woodcock said. "I am never satisfied." But he went on to say: "This is a good settlement, a solid, substantial showing of progress." There was some worker opposition to the tentative settlement both among council delegates and members who picketed in front of the Veterans Memorial, where the meeting was held. A brief ruckus erupted at one point when union security guards kept demonstrators from forcing their way into the closcd-door council meeting' The offer now goes with the approval of the union's International Executive Board and GM Council to 155 GM bargaining units across the country. The locals already have been told by union leadership they should have the ratification ballots 'in hand by Nov.

20. The results should be in the hands of international officials Nov. 21, a spokesman said. Skilled and unskilled UAW members will vote by secret ballot in separate local union balloting. The proposed settlement, reached Wednesday, includes an average 51-cent-an-hour, first-year wage increase, removal of The ceiling on the cost-of-living allowance (COLA) and a compromise on the union's 30-and-out early retirement demand.

The three-year pact would expire Sept. 14, 1973. Most of the opposition centers on the union's compromise on 30-and-Out. hanrlshake after his rccomniendcd contract Parisians Pour Out Grief for de Gaulle wear wnne cotton tnreaos because of my allergy. Is there any hope? M.

Detroit. Plenty. First pull on half-and-half threads we sent you (u cotton feet with black tops). They're made by i i in New York City, sold at 's for $1 a pair. Or if you'd prefer, tune in WXYZ's Dick a who's been blasting dark socks for years, and predicting all-white ones will soon be back in style.

Station's vigor Woodcock told a news conference after the council meeting that he disagreed with GM's view of the settlement as inflationary. The union chieftain described the offer as "counter-Turn to Page 2A, Column 5 mI THE ONUf I PLACE WHITE 11 ARE JO ous campaign prompted Mayor Gribbs to proclaim Oct. 9-16 "White Socks Week." Besides sporting white threads, crusading downtown office workers waved 'em as banners from car antennas and hung them out of office windows. i Radio The UAW made impres-sive gains in Us contract fight with General Motors. Page A.

Major details of UAW-GM settlement. Page 10 A. tWP WflfWIW 1 gave proceeds to Detroit's Com- station sold white socks and mission on Children and Youth I 4 v' v5 I 1 ''V. i My son in Vietnam has just one Christmas wish, besides wanting to come home. He asked us for a 1969 Cody High School graduation ring.

The jewelry store says it'll take five weeks to fill the order, which doesn't leave time to ship it overseas. Please help. Mrs. B. Detroit.

Ring will be on his finger by Christmas Day. Action Line called ring manufacturer who put ring in the works at once. Then Joston Co. of Denton, Texas, will mail it directly to Vietnam. Christmas deadlines for service mail are: SAM (space available mail under five pounds including card), Nov.

20; PAL (parcel airlift mail costs $1 more than parcel post), Nov. 27; regular air mail, 11. -4 Fr Press Photo by AL KAMUDA offer Mas approved From AP and UPI PARIS Charles de Gaulle was buried in a village churchyard Thursday. Later, hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen, in an outpouring, of gripf, marched through a ss and rain to the Arch of Triumph. The day of requiem was in three stages.

First, 100 world leaders gathered with thousands of others at Notre Dame Cathedral to hear mass. Four hours later, the funeral itself began at Colom-bey les Deux Eglises, 160 miles away. Then, after nightfall, came the flood of emotion of Parisians drawn as if by command into a march along the Champs Elysees ending at the nation's shrine of liberty. These were the ordinary people of Paris, come of their own accord, to pay an anonymous a 1 1 to the man who had been their leader in war and peace. The broad boulevard was a solid mass of humanity and a mass of umbrellas from the Rond Point to the i 1 e.

From the first row of flags Turn to Page 2A, Column 2 generation's interest and aspi-rations" as commander of naval forces in Vietnam. ZUMWALT also has begun discussions with black officers. Enlisted men and their wives to try to eliminate ra- i a 1 discrimination in the ranks. After listening to complaints from black officers last week, he said: "I must say we do have discrimination. I was astonished at the depth of their feelings." For example, Zumwalt said: "They feel very strongly they have been discriminated against because we do not have in many ex-c a any cosmetics for black skin and black hair." To improve morale, has authorized possession of alcoholic beverages in barracks and installation of beer-vending machines in certain bachelor officers' quarters.

"My theory is that we should treat our naval personnel as grown and mature citizens," he said. "Those who drink to excess will find themselves undergoing disciplinary action. But with the vast majority of our personnel, we will have no problem." One of his orders set up hard rock clubs "where they can really rock it" on an experimental basis at five naval stations. THE MOST recent "Z-gram," issued Tuesday, wipes Turn to Page 2A, Column 8 Action Woodcock gets a Chile Ends Long Snub Of Cuba SANTIAGO, Chile-(UPI)-Marxist President Salvador Allende announced Thursday the resumption of diplomatic relations between Chile and Cuba. i is the only other Latin American nation that maintains relations with Cuba.

Allende, whose government includes communists and members of four pro-Marxist splinter groups, made the announcement in a nationwide telecast. DETAILS FOR the resumption of relations were worked out by Allende's foreign minister, Clodomiro A 1 and the Cuban economics minister, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. Rodriguez left Santiago for a a a Thursday after heading the Cuban delegation to Allende's inauguration. Chile broke relations with Cuba in 1964 to fulfil an Organization of American States (OAS) mandate adopted because of charges of subversion by the Fidel Castro regime and Cuba's "ideological incompatibility" with the inter-American system. Cuba was suspended from membership in the OAS for the same reasons in 1962.

Navy's WASHINGTON (UPI) In a move that has some, old salts shaking their heads, Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt chief of naval operations, announced Thursday he is authorizing booze in barracks, long hair, hard rock music clubs and an end to "Mickey Mouse" or "Chicken" clothing regulations for sailors. "I want to make the' Navy a place where the activities of reasonable young men have full play," he said. "I hope our approach is one designed, to make life better for not only young men but also for the older men." Zumwalt told a news conference that when he became the Navy 's top uniformed commander in July, "One of the primary problems turned out to be personnel." Channel The widow of Charles de Gaulle and their son Philippe attend services at Colombey-Ies-Deux-Eglises.

I was once in the cast of a '40s radio show called "Land of the Lost." It was based on a children's book by Isabel Hew-son. Today I'm making a series of television cartoons, and I'd like to use the book. How can I get permission? T. Detroit. Write Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington, D.

C. 20540. Library will supply information you need from its authors' file for $5 to $20. Storybook characters Red Lantern, Wilhelmina the Whale and Kid Squid were favorites with youngsters in the '40s. Story went that a brother and sister stuffed magic seaweed into their pockets and then took "ocean express current" to the Land of the Lost.

Land was a place where earth people's lost articles eventually came to rest. Old Salts to Go Mod Action Line Line THE QUESTION Is your husband (or wife) the same person you married? AP Photo uate said he set as an ensign in World War II. His i quickened, he added, when he got "a better understanding of the i f. So i I. 1 'I i i 1 I 5 I' Ft 1 1 li 1 1 1 I used to go to a little place on the east side where people got up and did Greek and Armenian dances whenever they felt like it.

Now it's closed. Is there anyplace else like it around Detroit? A. Detroit. Try the International Institute, 111 E. Kirby.

Ethnic dancers stomp up a ptorm every Friday night from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Admission charge of $1 also gets you dancing lessons and refreshments. Professional folk dancer Mary Ann Rose says Institute teaches dances from more than 20 nations. Most popular ones are Mediterranean. Local Nalesa troupe performs exhibition dances from 30 countries.

To learn when and where they'll appear, call David Berry at 582-9498. Free Press Photo by JOE LIPPINCOTT Council delegates and interested UAW members jam the doorway at Veterans Memorial Building. Pair on Cliff 3 Weeks, Shrug Off Rescue Aid YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, massive rescue operation for two climbers inching up the sheer face of El Capitan was suspended Thursday when the climbers said they didn't want to be rescued. An Army helicopter had ferried about 15 expert rock climbers and rescue gear to the summit of the monolith towering over Yosemite Valley. They had planned to try Friday morning to rescue Warren Harding, 46, of West Sacramento, CaL, and Dean Caldwell, 27, of Portland, both climbing experts.

Informed by bullhorn that climbers were going to rescue them, Caldwell shouted from 1,900 feet above the ground: "They are like hell." The rescuers had planned to lower ropes which the mountaineers would ascend using mechanical climbing devices. The two have been trying for 21 days to scale the previously unclimbed sheer face, which has few cracks to which climbing hardware can be attached. Park Ranger Pete Thompson suspended the rescue opera-, tion saying: "They are continuing their climb." "Tremendous," responded Caldwell, as he. reached a ledge to spend the night! I immnwwmmimmmmmmmmniw.nmm Since then, he has issued 57 orders, called "Z-grams," that are inteded to humanize the Navy and raise morale, a goal 1942 Annapolis grad STAFF OF 17 FIRED 50 Cancels News HOW YOU VOTED NO, 62.2 percent. COMMENTS: "Not by a long shot" "Unfortunately" "Like good wine, he's improved every year" "Except for getting a little bigger around the waist" "If he was I wouldn't be thinking about a divorce" "For 25 years we were very happy now she's turned very cold" "As soon as he got me, he changed completely." YES, 37.8 percent.

COMMENTS: "The last time I checked she was!" "I was hoping age would mellow her, but that's the way it goes" "She was a hag when I married her she's still a hag" "She remains the girl I married 14 years ago" "But I try not to think about it" "It's been downhill for ten long years." Obituaries SB Opinion 9A Sports 1-6D Stock Markets 7-8B Television 4B Want Ads 8-11C Women's Pages 1-4C Kaiser Broadcasting took similar steps at its stations in Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Other Kaiser stations in San Francisco and Los An-g 1 have not had local newscasts. Channer'50's new general manager, L. William White, said: "We have tried for two years but there has not been audience or advertiser p-port. We had to make a decision whether to carry the financial burden and endan ger the whole independent operation." WHITE ESTIMATED that the TV news operation cost the station about $500,000 a year.

He denied that the station, overall, was in any financial trouble. A recent ARB rating (Audience Research Bureau) showed that 30,000 households, or not quite 90,000 viewers, watched the 10 p.m. news on Channel 50. That is roughly Turn to Page 4A, Column 2 BY BETTELOU PETERSON Fre Prass TV-Rdio Writer WKBD-TV, Detroit's Channel 50, went out of the news business abruptly Thursday and canceled its nightly news-c a with anchorman Ken Thomas. 17 members of the station's news department were fired and told a 1 50 would no longer have a nightly local news program because of economy measures taken by Kaiser Broadcasting which owns the UHF outlet.

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