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1 AMI ts boo home team in loss to IIC 1D Gait Lewis rans a golden 100 meter dash Olympics coverage begins on Page 1D SI iimday 3um steamy High 86, low 66 Chance of showers Monday Details on Page 2A 500 metro final ON GUARD FOR 153 YEARS Volume 154, Number 93 Sunday, August 5, 1984 1984. Detroit Free Press, Inc. The scalping of the Tigers' best seats an inside job? r- VLUMU Jill 1 WED. HUG. A 3 it I By RODDY RAY Free Press Staff Writer Copyright 1984, Detroit Free Press One evening a few days ago, when the Detroit Tigers officially were sold out of lower box seats for a game against the Cleveland Indians, a man walked up to one of the stadium's ticket windows.

"Can I get four box seats for tonight's game?" he asked. The Tigers employe could offer only four reserved seats, which are less expensive and located behind the box seats around the park. The man declined and stepped away from the window. The next man approached the window, while the first man stood nearby and watched. "I need four," the second man said.

He made some small talk with the ticket The second man pushed his money through the window. He came away with tickets for four box seats in a row, on the lower level between third base and home plate, only a few rows from the field. You can't do any better than that. THE SECOND MAN was a scalper. The first was a Free Press reporter.

The transaction was part of a three-week Free Press investigation into ticket scalping at Tiger Stadium. Tigers officials said two weeks ago that lower-level box seats were sold out for the season. They noted, however, that seats listed as unavailable could open up at any time, because of group or individual ticket returns. But the window transaction and interviews conducted before and after indicates at least one network of scalpers may be working with a group of employes inside the Tigers organization. The state Attorney General's Office began investigating See TICKETS, Page 11A LOWES SOS to ti! in li'.

Br 1SS4 llMm Ml V-: The four box-seat tickets purchased by a scalper through a Tiger Stadium ticket window last week. A source agreed to let a reporter watch the deal if the seat numbers weren't revealed. Texas Driving costs drop; first time in decades Begins Oil Spill 1. 'ill Jy i -v I i S. v-.

A I i'- 1 VJ; I -v v-'v Cleanup United Press International DETROIT The average cost to own and operate a car in 1983 dropped 2.4 cents a mile to 33 cents, the first decline since World War II, an annual Hertz Corp. survey released today said. Hertz said car owners saved $185 last year in lower gas prices, improved fuel efficiency, lower interest rates and slower depreciation. That was partly offset by an $82 rise in upkeep, insurance, license and fee costs. The nation's largest leasing and rental car agency said Ameri By BETTY LUMAN United Press International GALVESTON, Tex.

Globular masses of crude oil Saturday coated a 55-mile coastal area spanning the city's most popular tourist beaches, but unexpectedly bypassed two environmentally sensitive marshlands. Crews used road-working equipment to remove the oil and sediment globs called tar balls caused by a spill from a grounded British tanker 100 miles east off the shore of Cameron, La. The spill was the third disaster for the city in 12 months. Hurricane Alicia caused more than 1 billion damage last Aug. 1 9 and a killer freeze wiped out 50 percent of the area's vegetation last Christmas.

From noon Friday to noon Saturday, Texas officials said, 55 miles of coastline, from Gilchrist, on the Bolivar Peninsula to the west end of Galveston Island, were smeared by the crude oil. CITY WORK CREWS arrived on the beaches before daylight Saturday with tractors, front-end loaders and road graders to scoop the tar balls into dump trucks. cans spent $341.8 billion in 1983 to own and operate their autos, a 2.5 percent decline from $350.7 billion in 1982. The 33 cents a mile figure for 1983 applies to all types of autos. Hertz said the typical driver spent $2,744 to own and operate an auto last year for an average 8,317 miles.

In 1982, owners spent 35.4 cents a mile or $2,847 over the full year to operate an auto an average 8,037 miles. It was the first decline since the mid-1940s, when automakers were forced to curtail production and gasoline was rationed. DESPITE AN increase in travel of 280 miles in 1983, Hertz said, gas use rose just one gallon per driver to 535 gallons because of higher fuel economy. "By keeping cars longer, driving them less and selecting small The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Aretha Franklin attend the funeral Saturday of Franklin's father, the Rev.

C.L Franklin. 10,000 bid farewell to Rev. C.L. Franklin By TIM KISKA and W. KIM HERON lin's church at w.

raiaaeipnia ana Linwood. er, less expensive models with fewer options, U.S. motorists are now bringing their driving expenses back in line with their incomes," said Hertz Chairman Frank Olson. The average age of an auto rose for the 14th straight year, to Free Press Staff Writers The Rev. C.L.

Franklin, preacher, civil-rights leader, humanitarian, speaker and recording artist, was laid to rest Saturday in a roaring four-hour display of oratory, music and hand-clapping. It was, apparently, the larg- Coast Guard spokesman Dale Puckett said officials in helicopters reported that the beach "the entire length of Galveston Island except the four miles at the western end was covered up to the high water mark. At some points it was 30 yards wide and it's fairly deep in some places, around six inches." The worst of the 1.26 million-gallon spill had washed ashore by late Saturday afternoon and a mile-wide stretch of the gooey substance that remained in the water was expected to reach the shore during the night. Outside of the one-mile area, the Coast Guard reported no traces of the oil, other than a sheen extending about four miles. "The environmental impact of this thing was very minimal," Puckett said.

"No sheen, let alone any oil got into the marshlands, either in the East Bay behind Rollover Pass or into the environmentally sensitive area of See SPILL, Page 6A 7.4 years from 7.2 years in 1982, Hertz said vehicle age was higher f631 lln tetIoi's bis7- About 3,000 people packed into the Among those who jammed into the church where the temperature rose into the 90's were Mr. Franklin's family, his colleagues from the preaching world, politicians, entertainers, members of his congregation, journalists and hundreds that Mr. Franklin had known or helped in his long career. SPEAKERS including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mayor Young and U.S.

Reps. John Conyers Jr. and George Crockett Jr. credited Mr. Franklin with being "a preacher's preacher" See REV.

C.L. FRANKLIN, Page 11A than at any time since right after New Bethel Baptist Church to say goodby to Mr. Franklin, who was pastor of the church for 38 years. Another 6,000 to 7,000 people either viewed the body Saturday morning or listened to the service as it was broadcast into the streets near Mr. Frank World War II.

Hertz said the average driver spent 9.31 cents a mile on upkeep and repairs in 1983, up from 8.7 cents in 1982. Insurance, licenses and fees were 6.52 cents a mile, compared to 6.62 cents in 1982. Free Press Photo bv BRIAN BRANCH-PRICE A crowd gathers outside Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church shortly before C.L. Franklin's funeral Saturday. About 3,000 people packed the church for the funeral while another 6,000 to 7,000 paid their respects earlier or listened to the service as it was broadcast into the street.

IHIWS, LOIISMA IN FliSAI, I'llSII GOP slugfest ends Tuesday Lobstermen caught in a trap SATURDAY 425 and 4782 CARD GAME 2V and 8A inside today By MICHAEL COAKLEY Chicago Tribune BOSTON Six days a week from April to December, Alex Ferent hauls lobsters out of Boston Harbor. He is not sure how much longer he can continue. The problem is not a skimpy catch. The many islands that dot the mammoth inlet form an ideal natural anchorage, which last year yielded more than one million pounds of lobster. The threat to Ferent and the other fisherman to tie up his boat.

THE OLD INDIA WHARF, where in years past dozens of side trawlers, scallopers and draggers were moored at day's end, is now the site of two 40-story apartment buildings. Long Wharf, which dates to 1710 and was the landing point for British troops who fought at Lexington and Concord, has been taken over by a Marriott hotel. Lewis Wharf is crowded with touristy boutiques. See LOBSTER, Page 11A By PATRICIA MONTEMURRI Free Press Staff Writer It's about patriotism and apple pie, President Reagan and family, carpetbagging and lying. Tuesday's primary election for the Republican U.S.

Senate nomination pits Jack Lousma, a former astronaut in his premier orbit as a politician, against former U.S. Rep. Jim Dunn, a Republican renegade who calls state GOP leaders "party bosses" and his opponent "a liar." They have traded potshots about who's closer to President Reagan and have fired shots at Sen. Carl Levin who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. They A full page of election information.

10 A. say Levin is too liberal, far out of step with Michigan voters. TUESDAY will end a bitter, divisive campaign that seems to have generated lots of bad feelings but only marginal voter interest. A Gallup poll, commissioned by the Free Press and News 4 (WDIV-TV), indicated that the GOP race was a dead heat two weeks before the election, with a third of likely voters saying they were undecided about either. Neither candidate has generated fervent support from Republicans, the poll showed.

See SENATE, Page 10A' L.v,. a rJ Atlantic BOOKS 5B CLASSIflEDS 1-11E, 5-1 1H DATELINE MICHIGAN 4H DfATH NOTICES 2E EDITORIALS 2B GAMES PAGE J1A MOVIE GUIDE 6C MUSIC-RADIO PAGE 7B OBITUARIES 12H r' eV Ocean 'Free PressNOLAN ROSS Simply put, the city's waterfront has become so popular with upscale developers that there is no room left for a 90 or so lobstermen in the Boston area is to be found on land, not at sea. To place a classified aj, call X-(, Sal. V-5 and Sun. 11H..