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how you can call us City News Desk 222-6600 Classified Gold Ads 222-5000 Insurance Dept. 222-6470. For Home Delivery 222-6500 All Other Calls 222-6400 today's chuckle One of the hardest decisions is when, officially, to start middle age. Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Saturday, August 8, 1981 An upset win, and a between-innings rescue By BRIAN FLANIGAN and JACK KRESNAK Free Press Staff Writers Two softball teams from an East Detroit church league will BUT ONE of the St. Veronica's players, Patrick O'Brien, quickly found a short stepladder in Adam's garage, according to Krotche.

"Pat set up the stepladder, and I yelled at the guy to climb out on the ledge," Krotche said, "but he wouldn't do it. He just line the bar at Suszy's in Roseville Monday night and drink to their hearts' content. "They can have whatever they want," said owner Edgar Hamel Friday. "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for those gentlemen." Hamel, 38, who has been "working 20 or 22 hours a day" Softball players form ladder to save life in blazing home lng I was in a forest fire, it was that hot. Across the middle of the room was just flame, a wall of fire." "I was in a panic," Hamel said.

"I finally beat on the window and opened it I started yelling out the window." ABOUT 200 YARDS away, Michael Krotche, 39, an off-duty Detroit police lieutenant playing second base for the St. Veronica's softball team, was trotting onto the field when he heard Hamel's screams. Members of his team and the opposition from St. Barnabas' dropped their bats and gloves and ran toward Hamel's home, where smoke was "billowing from the upstairs windows," Krotche said. since opening the bar two weeks ago, fell asleep in his East Detroit home Wednesday with a lit cigaret in his hand.

When he awoke, he was trapped in his burning bedroom. Edgar Hamel leans out the window through which he was rescued. Only a human chain of softball players and the help of his close friend and neighbor saved his life. kept screaming, 'I'm burning! I 'm Hamel said later, "They told me to jump. I'm looking down, and I said, 'I ain't I was panicking." AS KROTCHE climbed the stepladder, O'Brien and the other ballplayers climbed on each Others' shoulders and held onto the house, forming a human ladder to support him.

Krotche slid one leg across to an air conditioner in an adjoining window, trying to position his metal baseball spikes so they wouldn't slip. "I told him (Hamel) I'd get to him somehow and not to worry," Krotche said, "but I was getting a little worried, because I could see the flames I knew we didn't have much time." Krotche finally convinced Hamel to come out through the window and supported the burned man on his shoulders until See RESCUE, Page11A AT ABOUT 6:30 P.M. Wednesday, Hamel, who bought Suszy's after being laid off from Chrysler's Huber Avenue foundry, fell asleep in the second-floor bedroom of his home on David Street. "For 72 hours, I hadn't gotten any sleep," he said Friday. "I Hamel's screams had also rousted his neighbor, Jerry Adam, from a shower.

Adam ran into Hamel's house and up the stairs but couldn't get through the flames in the bedroom. "I yelled for him to get my ladder," Hamel said, "and then it dawned on me that we didn't have a ladder." bought myself the bar and I'd been meeting salesmen, learning the business." About 40 minutes later, Hamel said he awoke after "dream- Free Press Photo by RICHARD LEE Slain woman's GOP Drafts husband held Million on sex charges ipPifc 'iMiMiiiiiHiiiii By RICK RATLIFF Free Press Staff Writer iftiiiis Program for A Macomb County man, whose wife and two of his three children were murdered in their beds last month, was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of sexual as sault. The charges stem from incidents appar ently unrelated to the Economy murders. Robert M. Deroo, 25, was being held Friday night in the Macomb County Jail on a total bond of $300,000 for two B'BlIBI counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, each of which carries a i Deroo By DAVID KUSHMA Free Prest Lansing Staff MACKINAC ISLAND Gov.

Milliken and Republican legislative leaders said Friday they have outlined a $2 billion plan to stimulate Michigan's battered economy over the next three years through a series of property tax cuts and business tax breaks. Although the bulk of the tax relief for home and farm owners would be concentrated in the plan's second and third years, Milliken said the proposal also provided for a "very important and significant" property tax reduction this calendar year. i AP Photo maximum 15-year prison sentence, Macomb County Sheriff William Hackel said. Hackel said the case has nothing to do with The tax package was the 1 last month's slayings, and did not reveal when product of a conference of GOP A cloud of gas escapes from the tank car after the derailment in Bridgman. 2,600 evacuated after train the alleged sexual assaults occurred.

lawmakers, top administration ANOTHER POLICE source familiar with officials, and Milliken at the governor's state-owned summer home here. The three-day meet the case said the alleged victim was a minor girl, but the Macomb Sheriff's Department ing ended Friday. refused to give details about the victim. Deroo was arrested at 4 p.m. Friday by Macomb derails, leaks noxious cargo MILLIKEN REFUSED to dis cuss details of the package, say County deputies and St.

Clair Shores police and arraigned a short time later before 41st lng they will be refined after (Utica) District Judge Herman Campbell. talks with Democratic lawmak tank car containing fluorosulfonic acid, manufac It? ers and representatives of busi tured in East Chicago, by the Du Pont Co. Deroo's wife, Deborah Jane, 25, son Na ness and labor lobbies. thaniel, 4, and daughter Jessica Anne, 17 months, were found murdered July 1 6 in their "What must emerge is not FOURTEEN RESIDENTS were treated at area hospitals. They suffered skin and eye irritation when moisture in the air mixed with the spill to Republican plan or a Democratic Macomb Township home.

Mrs. Deroo had been strangled in her bed, while Nathaniel plan, but a Michigan plan a form a highly corrosive vapor cloud. blueprint for obs for the '80s," and Jessica Anne had been suffocated, police; Milliken said in a statement en said. Don Luebke, manager of the hicago plant where the substance is manufactured, said fluoro Michigan LdkB Train Derailment Bridgman IND. ILL dorsed by conference partici By PETER GAVRILOVICH Free Press Staff Writer BRIDGMAN Vandalism may have caused the derailment of a tank car here Friday that led to the evacuation of at least 2,600 area residents in a six-square-mile area from Bridgman and nearby Lake Township, police and railroad officials said.

Officials said they hoped the evacuees could begin moving back home Saturday morning. The derailed tank car was punctured and spilled Its noxious corrosive liquid cargo. Police found a nut and a bolt they believe had been removed from a railroad switch before the 77-car train passed over the Berrien County track about 5:15 a.m., said Chessie System Superintendent George Athanas in Detroit. Fourteen of the cars derailed, including the sulfonic acid could cause injury if it came in pants. A third child, Nicholas, 3, was found alive, contact with skin or eyes.

though police said bruises on his neck indicat According to the governor, ed the killer had also attempted to murder the plan would offer business reforms in the state's Single Officials were preparing a clay-lined pit to contain the spilled substance. They planned to him. Business Tax; cost cuts in Michi neutralize it with 75,000 pounds of limestone. Deroo told police last month he had been gan worker compensation and unemployment insurance drinking and bowling with friends, later went alone to a restaurant, and discovered the Luebke said the chemical is a colorless liquid with a pungent odor and is non-flammable. It is Cynthia Anderson: Last seen on Tuesday.

Fears rise in missing woman case bodies when he returned home after 2 a.m. used in making synthetic fabrics. systems; fewer government reg ulatlons; and a "multi-million Map by MOSES HARRIS dollar" program to promote the "It will combine with water, or moisture, to produce a white fume," Luebke explained. "That state commercial advantages. mm Two arrests bring new leads The proposal also would cut Cflllflfl ilfflf vapor is corrosive.

It can burn the skin severely under drastic local property-tax bills sched qyp qgyp mm Qjypfifli uled to be mailed in December, By KEITH HARRISTON and would give home and farm on suspect in slaying of girl, 8 Glad Reagan bills passed? Free Press Staff Writer owners a rebate on the taxes they paid last month, Milliken Toledo police said Friday Gov. Milliken says no state has more to said. By SANDY McCLURE Free Press Staff Writer they were "getting a bit nervous" after finding no clues to gain than Michigan from President Rea THE GOVERNOR said he Since two arrests earlier this gan's tax and budget cuts. Are you glad the president's economic programs were hoped many of the key bills the whereabouts of a Toledo legal secretary who has been missing since Tuesday morning. week for a drug-related murder conditions (if the vapor settles on the skin for too long without treatment).

It can burn the eyes and mucous membranes." Athanas, of the Chessie System, said "an army of supervisors" was at the scene investigating the derailment. Forty of the 77 cars were empty. The 14 derailed cars were toward the end of the train, the last being about five cars from the caboose, Athanas said. Nine of the derailed cars were empty. needed to enact his tax plan approved? How you voted Cynthia Anderson, 20, of could be drafted by the time the Legislature returns Sept.

15. He in July, Highland Park police have received additional information about Michael (Rabbit) Sims, wanted in the murder of an eight-year-old Detroit girl. Bedford Township, near Toledo, was reported missing called Michigan economic re' NO, 58 percent. COMMENTS: "Reagan's covery the "primary goal" of for the rich" "He's favoring the Sun about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday by James Rabbitt, an attorney at the this fall's legislative session.

belt and the West" "He's creating Sims, who remains at large, is "I'm not saying that we'll be more inflation at the cost of the poor" Toledo law offices of Neller and Rabbitt. wanted for the first-degree mur able to lock together a package "I definitely oppose the breaks for oil "This (case) doesn't look too THE TRAIN was en route to Parker Wright In every last detail," Milliken said. "I know that can't be done. But we can at least try." der of Pamela Graves, who was gunned down July 29 outside a candy store at Linwood and Grand when Sims allegedly opened fire randomly in retali Niagara Falls, N.Y., where the See LEAK, Page 11 A good," said Toledo police Sgt. Robert Cothern.

"Two bodies were found Monday night in the companies." YES, 42 percent. COMMENTS: "Reagan's just doing what he promised" Democratic lawmakers al trunk of a car three blocks from 'Forty years of the New Deal hasn't ready have unveiled their proposals for a $1.2 billion, mul- where she works. It makes us ation for the robbery of one of his drug pushers earlier in the day, police said. homemade 'wanted' poster with a warning that they should be considered "armed and dangerous." "Gardenhire got out of his car and told them to stop," Hagopian said, "but Parker said, 'I'm not ready to come in "But Gardenhire told them, 'You're turning yourself in and brought them into the station," Hagopian said. "I was most worried about Parker," Gardenhire said, "so I kept him in the front seat with my gun on him and put Wright in the back seat.

"Then I drove to the station, with one hand on the wheel and the other on my gun," he said. Judge Thomas C. Bayles of 30th District Court in Highland Park accepted not guilty pleas from Wright and Parker Thursday and ordered them held without bond in the Wayne County Jail pending a pre-trial examination Aug. 18. HAGOPIAN SAID Highland Park police also want to question Sims in the murder of Mark Qulnton Harden, 24, who was shot about the same time Pamela Graves was killed.

Harden, 24, identified by po- SeeUSPECT, Page 11 A getting it straight nervous because we've got a bru worked" "When Reagan helps business, he helps everyone" "Creating tal killer running around that tlyear property tax cut and for economic development. Republican House members earlier this Police said more people who jobs sure beats giveaway programs." neighborhood." Cothern added, however, To insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error which may occur in our news columns. Sound off Is a non-scientific, reader opin that police had not established a year endorsed a property tax reduction of $560 million over three years. knew about Sims' drug operation were willing to come forward since the arrest of Marvin Lydell Wright, 22, and John Parker 21, both of Highland ink between the double homi ion feature. Today's percentages are based on approximately 900 calls.

cide and the Anderson case. State budget director Gerald Charged with murder connection with a series of drug-related murders in Highland Park and on Detroit's near west side. Wright and Parker were arrested Wednesday by off-duty policeman Michael Gardenhire, 33, a six-year veteran of the Highland Park department. "I HAD a 'wanted' poster for them In my car," he said Friday. "When I saw them walking down the street (on Geneva near Woodward), I checked the poster and, sure enough, it was them." Detective Armen Hagopian of the Highland Park Police Department had distributed photocopied pictures of the pair for a Anderson was last seen in her Park.

Miller reportedly told the GOP lawmakers during their private office about 9:45 a.m. Tuesday Wright and Parker were ar by a maintenance worker, police Tomorrow's question The state cannot ban construction of nuclear power plants because federal laws take precedence, according to Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley meeting that a "further massive reduction" in state spending could not be achieved this year. raigned Thursday on charges of first-degree murder in the July 22 slaying of Melvin Cooper said. When Rabbitt arrived at the office at noon, he found the front door locked and the radio and air A story Friday should have said that federal embezzling charges leveled at three Teamsters Local 299 leaders stemmed from a 1978 challenge to Robert LIns' victory as local president, when Lins and his colleagues were charged by Peter Karago-zlan with accepting employer funds and discriminating against rival candidates who wanted to use election lists. (Pumpkin Man) Coleman, who "The state's ability (to pro conditioner on.

Anderson's car was parked in front of the office. police snfd was also involved in (See Michigan Dateline, Page 8B). Would you like to see an end to construction of new nuclear power plants? JEFF LEMKE, a friend of An vide tax relief) increases with the passage of each year," Milliken said. "Our projections for the Michigan economy show a lot of improvement over time." Sims' drug operation. Detroit and Highland Park police, along with the FBI, had sought them, as well as Sims, in derson, said he and his friends, To vote YES To vote NO Call 961-323 Call 961-4422 Pe MISSING, PageHA.