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Whilaker stars as Tigers sock the Angels, 10-7 Details on Page 1D slale 1 1 Partly sunny High 74. low 46 Details on Page 13D i 20c Volume 149, Number 38 ON GUARD FOR 148 YEARS Monday, June 11, 1979 JL 199. Detroit Free Cress. Inc 6 Jay Horns Delivery UO Do 9 a ranklm fa 4 f1 nfl' 1(1 'i s- us i A Shot ther Areth MB Rights leader is attacked by bandits at home Write Action Line, Box 88 1, Detroit, Mich. 4823 1 Or dial 222-6464 from 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m.

Monday-Friday. U-Haul delivers Last October, I rented a U-Haul car-top luggage carrier in Tennessee. It fell off by the time I reached Kentucky, damaging the roof of my car. The U-Haul dealer there said my car was the wrong type for the roof-mounted unit. I had to wait two days, incurring motel charges, until he got me a trailer to finish my trip.

I also filled out insurance forms to cover the damage to my car, but I haven't heard anything definite about the claim. What's going on? M.S., Warren You'll be hauling in $72 check in few days. Money represents reimbursement for total cost of car-top carrier and next to Mr. Franklin. They believe the gun belonged to Mr.

Franklin. Mr. Franklin's home was also broken into June 2 while he was staying at the St. Regis Hotel, officials said. He returned home the next afternoon after attending a celebration to mark his 33d year at the church to find his house had been broken into.

The intruder fled the home when a burglar alarm was activated, police said. ARETHA FRANKLIN, who had been scheduled to close an act Sunday night at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, was trying to-get back to Detroit along with her sister, Carolyn, and her brother, Cecil, according to another sister, Erma. Mr. Franklin, who helped organize a freedom march to end racial discrimination in downtown Detroit in 1963, was "famous before Aretha was ever known," Erma said. A friend of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Mr.

Franklin was known throughout Detroit for his Sunday evening See FRANKLIN, Page 21 A By LUTHER JACKSON and JACK KRESNAK Free Press Staff Writers The Rev. Clarence L. Franklin, civil rights activist and father of soul singer Aretha Franklin, was in critical condition Sunday at Henry Ford Hospital after being shot twice during an apparent break-in at his near west side Detroit home. Police had no suspects. MR.

FRANKLIN, 63, the pastor at New Bethel Baptist Church for 33 years, was found in his upstairs bedroom early Sunday morning by Brother Christopher Aikins of the Brown Brothers Abbey across the street, police said. Mr. Franklin received wounds to the right groin and the right knee. Police are looking for a white 1967 Chevrolet and a gold Cadillac, which were reported by separate witnesses to have been near the home at 7415 La Salle Blvd. POLICE SAID it was impossible to deter- mine if anything had been stolen because the three-story home was being remodeled.

Police found close to $30,000 in cash and cashier's checks in Mr. Franklin's closet. According to police speculation, Mr. Franklin was in his second-floor bedroom watching television when the assailants, who were apparently expecting the house to be deserted, entered the home. Police found a gun and two spent shells Shooting stuns the congregation of the Rev.

Franklin's Church. Story, pictures on the Back Page. motel stay. As soon as you submit estimates of bodywork needed for your auto, second check will be mailed. U-Haul Rental System in Phoenix steered us to its Atlanta, Ga insurance office.

Supervisor there found your file day after we called. He apologized for delay, saving claim was held More on 21A action line: How does a musician find an orchestra? sound off: Could you give extra 10 percent on your job? C. L. Franklin, burglar's victim. Tour Pope Ends His Triumphant up for several months in another office, then misfiled.

Dsn Itasdois 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. Pontiff boards Polish jet for return to Rome (0) Edsel Amnions KRAKOW, Poland Pope John Paul II ended his nine-day return to his native country Sunday by bidding a misty-eyed farewell to his people and kissing the ground of this city where he lived and worked for 40 years. "At this moment I feel bad.

I feel grief," he told the crowd at Krakow Airport who watched him board a spe A reluctant bishop? Bishop Edsel Ammons, 55, of the United Methodist Church in Michigan, came to Detroit in 1976 after eight years as professor of urban studies at Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, III. He has a doctor of ministry degree from Chicago Theological Seminary and is the first black to hold the post of bishop in Michigan Meth cial LOT Polish Airlines jet to Rome. John Paul's last day in Krakow was an overwhelming finale to the triumphant return to Poland of the first Polish pope. More than a million Poles filled a huge meadow called blonia in Polish in Krakow Sunday morning to hear the pope say a final mass. Ellen Grzech in Poland AP Photo His cape over his head.

Pope John Paul kisses the soil of his homeland before leaving Krakow for Rome. PAYOUT RATE ASSAILED Cash U.S. bonds, union urges to Federal employes i .1 1 THE CROWD WAS the largest of the trip, and John Paul drove back the forth through the meadow for 30 minutes before the mass waving and blessing the people from his special open-air bus painted in the papal colors, yellow and white. But it was as he got ready to leave his native land perhaps for the last time That John Paul became solemn and A crowd of thousands gathered after the services outside the cardinal's residence, where John Paul used to live and where he stayed while on this visit to Krakow, and they sang and applauded until the pope appeared on a balcony above them. "I'm really leaving, there are no jokes now," he told them quietly.

"This involves timetables and aircraft schedules. "This is really it. I have to leave." JOHN PAUL was obviously tired, and he coughed repeatedly, as he has for the past few days. "Now, when I go back to Rome and lose my voice, your banners saying 'Come visit again' will not help because the people in Rome will tell me, 'you can't go back because you lose your voice up he joked gently with the crowd. They laughed, but it was apparent that his impending departure dampened their spirit.

As he boarded his bus to drive to the See POPE, Page 21 A said in an interview. "It's bad enough to club us, but the worse thing is that the members that follow him I think are going to be injured." Niles emphasized that tax consequences of individuals who cash in their bonds now in protest, instead of waiting until they retire and are in a lower tax bracket. He also assailed Blaylock's suggestion that workers' money was better spent in credit unions. Because of federal, state and local taxes, Niles said a seven percent yield from a credit union is effectively only 4.5 percent, compared to the non-taxable (except on a deferred basis at maturity) yield of 6.5 percent on bonds. Neither the union nor government said it has results yet on how effective the anti-bonds program has been, but a union spokesman said there had been reports of widespread revocations and in one case a worker turned in $12,000 worth of bonds.

WASHINGTON (UPI) Don't buy U.S. savings bonds. If you own now, cash them in before Thursday. That message is being spread by the latest union of federal workers to the 700,000 members it represents throughout the United States. It is to alert President Carter that the union membership is upset over government policies toward federal employes, especially the administration's insistence that most federal workers get a 5.5 percent pay increase, while Carter's wage guidelines allow a seven percent yearly boost for other workers.

Kenneth Blaylock, president of the American Federation of Government Employes, contends workers get a better deal by putting their money elsewhere. HE SAID WORKERS "get a better rate of return on your investment in scores of no-risk uattic wage guiue places, like credit unions, savings and loans, even the corner bank." Blaylock is pushing for the savings bonds cash-ins by Thursday because it is the date for a nationwide "awareness day" protest by federal workers unions that will include picketing the White House. According to the U.S. savings bond division of the Treasury Department, about $1.1 billion of the $8 billion spent on bonds last year came from federal employes. Jack Niles, national director of bonds sales, claims Blaylock is only hurting the very people he is trying to help.

"He felt because he had no other weapon, that he was going to use us as a club," Niles odism. By HARRY COOK Free Press Staff Writer How did you get to be a bishop? A It began in 1972 at the regional conference where United Methodist bishops are elected. My name surfaced, much to my surprise. I was surprised because I had just completed four years as a seminary professor a position I also thought I would never have or want. You didn't want to be a bishop? A Not at first.

It's a big job kind of middle management. But I got to seeing that if blacks were to come into the leadership they had earned, some one of us was going to have to be a candidate. Other black leaders decided I should be the one. And that was it. What are your major goals as bishop of the Methodist Church in Michigan? A To reclaim the city, to make our church visible and helpful in the rebuilding process and to help the church see itself as a sacrificial society, that is, a community with no fears and therefore ready and willing to suffer for the sake of her neighbors.

You are the first black to be bishop in Michigan. Did you encounter much resistance here? A Nothing overt, but some covert, I think. I'm quite sure there are some churches where I'll never be invited to preach. But by and large my leadership is accepted and I'm enjoying the work. You recently spoke out in behalf of the United Methodist Church at the General Motors stockholders meeting.

What was that about? A I was asked to speak in behalf of our world mission society which owns several thousand shares of GM stock. I was asked to say (and I agree personally with everything in the statement) that the Methodist Church is opposed to the sale of vehicles, parts and service to the government and police of South Africa, which is a racist society. Do you anticipate more involvement in politics and big business? A I'll do what I have to do, what I need to do. But I happen to think that it is the job of the clergy to speak to the people, the laity and it's their job to go out and change the world. So I'll be speaking to the ministers and the people wherever I have the chance and urge them to get involved.

Are you by any chance related to the jazz musician Gene Ammons? A Gene was my brother. He was a terrific sax player. He died of cancer in 1974. He got the sax from me. I started it and played it one day.

A year younger than he picked up where I left off and was playing in a band by the time he was 15. Our father was Albert Ammons, who gave birth to the boogie-woogie piano style. What do you do musically now? A Sing a lot. Mostly hymns? A Well, yes. MX foe disputes cost figures Fiedler back in hospital Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, 84, is in a Boston hospital after suffering a heart attack this weekend.

Fiedler, who was hospitalized six weeks ago after suffering a fainting spell, is expected to be in the hospital for several weeks. wil 3i ftlQ Stevensville Mmfji BERRIEN I COUNTY Yilf Bridgeman inside today Danes area digs in on sand mining By ERIC SHARP Free Press Staff Writer Fifteen months ago, the U.S. secretary of the interior said the unique, wooded sand dunes and marshes of Berrien County's Grand Mere area faced "the most immediate threat" of destruction of all American natural landmarks. And while Secretary Cecil Andrus' words were welcomed by many residents of Lake Michigan's southwest coast, those residents are not much closer to success in their battle to keep sand mining companies from continuing what opponents call irreparable damage to Grand Mere and several other environmentally sensitive stretches of sand dunes. For this sand five million tons of it from Michigan alone last year is a vital commodity in the production of cast steel products ranging from bathtubs to auto engines.

And while sand can be mined from sources less sensitive from an environmental standpoint and far less beautiful from an aesthetic one, there are several key factors which drive the mining companies to continue to fight for mining rights in the wooded dunes. FEATURE PAGE 13B HOROSCOPE 11D MOVIE GUIDE 12-13D President Carter will seek regular summits when he meets with Brezhnev. Page 14B. WASHINGTON -(AP)-A leading Senate opponent of the MX missile charged Sunday that the Air Force apparently made a "staggering" miscalculation in estimating the cost of an alternate missile system. Sen.

Mark Hatfield, said the apparent mistake raises serious questions about the cost effectiveness of the MX mobile missile, which President Carter approved last week for full-scale development. Hatfield based his charge on a Library of Congress study that he commissioned on the MX issue. The study See MISSILE, Page4A The Air force puts up a satellite to monitor Russian and Chinese space launches. Page 7C. NAMES FACES 14D ANN LANDERS 5C OBITUARIES 6C BILLY GRAHAM 14D OPINION 17A BRIDGE 110 SPORTS 1-1QD BUSINESS NEWS 1-2B TELEVISION 1QB CLASSIFIED -22C THE WAY WE LIVE 1-SC COMICS 11130 a'Vv CROSSWORD PUZZLE IIP f'lrk DEATH NOTICES 9C i V' iRi EDITORIALS 16A admUtjLJLn ENTERTAINMENT 6-7B SATURDAY 192 FIRST, THEY control the property, and in most cases have owned the land, or the mining rights on it, for many years.

Locating and obtaining mining rights on new property would be much more expensive. Two, the nearly pure dune sand has been carefully sifted by nature for thousands of years to produce grains of a uniform size and See DUNES, Page 5A.