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Free Press Telephones Today's Chuckle To Place Want Ada 2224800 For Home Delivery 222-6500 City Newi Desk 222-6600 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 All Other Calls 222-6400 A bachelor is a fellow who opens the window of his apartment and mare dust blows out than in. THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Monday, February 21, 1972 Maybe You Can't Fly to Mexico from Here -1 anxious travelers during their wait. Tony Jiminez, a spokesman for Aeronaves de Mexico, said the stewardesses refused to serve the steaks because of union prohibitions against serving food while flights are still on the runway. Instead, stewardesses served pineapple juice and Nabisco cookies, Miss Conheim said.

BY 10 P.M. PASSENGERS began an-grily demanding to be let off the plane. Stewardesses told them, however, that they would have to remain aboard until 1 a.m. Jiminez said Sunday that the passengers were restricted from getting Off during the wait because international flights are under immigration and customs The passengers were told fhat the flight would try again at 2 p.m. Sunday and were bused to the terminal Sunday afternoon.

They groaned when they saw a little pile of tools under engine No. 4. More repairs. FINALLY, at 3 p.m., It was adlos to Detroit. Jiminez said difficulty In locating the problem caused the excessive delay.

A station agent for Aeronaves de Mexico, who asked not to be identified, was more blunt: "This happens all (he time," the agent said. "Our planes are always breaking down and we're understaffed. I don't like to tell people to wait for 10 minutes when it's going to be four hours. This is just not a fair way to treat passengers." Shortly before 1 a.m. the pilot announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very sorry for you, but the plane is not good." The plane was fowed to the terminal and Immigration officials boarded to check passports for the flight that had made it Only as far as the runway.

When the passengers left the plane some of them clad in openedtoed sandals and light clothing their luggage was checked by a customs official. ONCE IN DOWNTOWN Detroit passengers who chose to eat were treated by the airline to a meal at Luigi's Pizzeria. One passenger told Miss Conheim that it was 5 a.m. by the time he finished his meal and returned to his hotel room for the night. Free Press reporter Maryanne Conheim, a passenger on the flight, said one man, a Kentuckian, became so irate when asked to leave that he would not get off until his luggage wis brought to him on the plane.

MEANWHILE, a bus carrying nine other passengers waited in the 14-degree weather outside the plane. They moved onto the plane when their seats were vacated. Miss Conheim Said several passengers had traveled by bus and train to Detroit from Toronto to catch the flight, because of the Canadian airline strike. After about 45 minutes, the plane's pilot told passengers that the No. 4 engine would not start and that there would be a half-hour delay.

More than 100 steak dinners being heated in the plane's galley were not served to the BY MARCO TRBOVICH Pitt PrM Stiff writer The 161 vacation-bound travelers who ex-, pected to spend Sunday morning languishing in toasty Mexican sunshine wound up milling around the Detroit Hilton's lobby as temperatures headed toward zero. The disgruntled tourists were bused to the hotel early Sunday morning after waiting almost six hours inside an engine-troubled Aeronaves de Mexico DC8, which had been scheduled to leave from Metro Airport at 7:40 p.m. Saturday for Mexico City and Acapulco. The flight's problems were more than mechanical, however. Shortly before scheduled takeoff, several officials of the airline boarded the plane and announced the flight had been overbooked and nine passengers would have to get off.

Plant Closings Cause Illness, Expert Finds BY MICHAEL MAIDENBERG Prtt Prtsi Stiff Wrlttr A man in his 40s or 50s, long years of seniority behind him', feeling secure, his life settled, retirement approaching when this man's plant closes and he loses his job, it ds a telling blow to his physical and mental health. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been studying precisely thes problem over the last seven years. Their conclusion: Plant closings have been and are being conducted in a needlessly inhumane fashion. DR. SIDNEY COBB, an M.D.

and a director of the program on social environment and mental health at the Institute for Social Research, has found that with the termination comes a rise in the incidence of ulcers, arthritis and high blood pressure. He suspects, though he cannot yet prove it, that men who have been terminated will die more quickly than Others. This 'tJ ,1 auk. Fre Prta Photo Dy Chief Photowaoher TONY SPINA Botanist Paul Thompson, who uses a hand level to measure his trees, stands by a former state champion white oak at the corner of Livernois and Auburn Rd. in Oakland County.

The 300-year-old tree measures Wt feet around, is 77 feet high and has a spread of 125 feet. Fire Kills Car Crash Fatal to 3 A Michigan family of four died early Sunday in a fire which destroyed their rural home near Fife Lake, in the northern Lower Peninsula. Three persons were killed In a head-on car crash in Albion. The fire, which was reported to the Kalkaska County sheriff's office at 5:24 a.m. Sunday, killed Raymond I.

Has-kin, 26; his wife'Sandra Lee, 24, and their two children, Shftnda Rhae, 7, and Ryan 5. Investigators said they believed that the father had carried one child into the basement to try to escape the flames, but wandered instead into the heaviest part of the fire. The bodies of the father and one child were found in the basement; the bodies of Mrs. Haskin and the second child were discovered on the first floor. THREE OTHER Michigan residents died and 11 were injured in a two-car collision about 8:30 p.m.

Saturday in Albion. The two cars collided on Irwin Ave. at Finley on the southwest side of Albion. The accident occurred as an auto carrying 12 passengers and driven by Mrs. Lucille Lawe, 34, of Springport, attempted to turn left while traveling east on Irwin.

A automobile driven by Gene Raymond Hamilton, 17, of Albion, struck the Lawe car head on, police said. Dead at the scene was Mrs. Lawe's husband, John Marcus Lawe, 38. Dead on arrival at Albion Community Hospital were Lawes' son, Richard, 11, and Theresa Caudill, 37 of Eaton Rapids. Bakery Drivers Accept Pay Cut To Save Firm Agreement for a 10 percent pay cut was voted by Teamsters Local 51 Sunday to keep Farm Crest Bakeries from foldiing.

The Teamsters action, by a vote of 59 to 11, followed a similar move last week by the Baker and Confectionery Workers Local 326. A spokesman for Farm Crest's parent company, the Ward Baking said the pay cuts will probably allow the bakers to remain in Detroit. Today Woodman, Spare That Tree! i i It Could Be Another Champ They'd Never Swallow That OTHER DAY "A GROUP of legislators was invited into one of Gov. Milliken's inner sanctums for a briefing on the future of recreation in Michigan and prospects for new taxes to pay for that future. On possibility mentioned was a tax on soft drinks.

"That's an absolute no-no," aid Rep. Alex Pilch. "A tax on pop is sure to fizzle." Henry Zuldema passes along a copy of the Free Press with a eight-column headline: "D.S.R. Loss $1,881,160, Audit Firm Finds." The date was Oct. 16, 1931, proving that certain situations don't change much over the years Sign of Our Times spotted by Bette-lou Peterson on a bumper: I'M A PUSHER of Spring by Jay Montgomery on the way to Lansing: Welcome to Williamston If You Can't Stop, Smile As You Go By Interest in chess in the United States has zoomed since Bobby Fischer, long a top player on international scene, has become a potential world champion.

Membership in chess clubs is on the increase, and so are the sales of sets. Though there can't be too much of a demand for the special set that Emily Gail and EH Master will have on display in the lobby of the First National Building all next week. Valued at $25,000, the chessmen stand five feet tall and are set up on a nine-by-12-foot board Sam Wilson anticipates a record turnout for Master Masons Brotherhood Night in the Crystal Ballroom of Masonic Temple Wednesday when Perfection Lodge No. 486 hosts the Mosaic, Craftsmen, Daylight and Oak Park Lodges with Police Commissioner John Nichols as speaker It still makes me mad to see George Washington's birthday displaced just to create a longer weekend for government workers, bank employes and a handful of school kids. Wonder what Washington's ghost thinks about it? rl CANNOT TELL A LIE.

I'M mad' Tip of the Topper to Rachel Porter, a 16-year-old 1 v-enth-grader, who won the $500 main prize in the recent Afro-American History Contest. She's the daughter of the Rev. John Porter, chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit. Rachel Is a pupil in Mrs. Claudie Taylor's Art History course at Cass Tech.

Her work was an ambitious walkthrough maze depicting various phases of Afro-American history. Second prize of $250 went to a Southeastern social group composed of Vanessa Hooks, Paulette Worthy, Linda Bry-gon and Robert Ransom. Stanley Taliaferro, a Mumford student, won the $100 third prize. Cass Tech Assistant Principal, Eloise Anderson, said of the white girl's first place effort: "I'm really pleased that so many people with so many different backgrounds are finding the study of Afro-American history so fascinating." James Jemlson, director of the International Afro-American Museum, headed the judges. Thought for the Day There's enough leisure for everybody but usually the wrong people have most of it.

The Pissing Parade Richard Collins, director of Wayne State's Building Services, claims the University has the only insulated flagpole he knows about. The pole was filled with ver-miculite when residents of the Chatsworth apartments complained that hooks on the pole's halyard banged against the pole fll' nignt keeping them awake. Now the pole no longer plays the Anvil Chorus for its neighbors. 1 Today's Worst Joke Then there was the brand new father who was told his wife had quintuplets. "I can't believe my census," he may be due in part to an in crease in suicide.

Much of Dr. Cobb's research has been conducted in Detroit. He studied the closing of a west side paint plant in 1965, interviewing a sample of 54 men during termination, then six, 12 and 24 months afterward. The average age of the men in the sample was 47. Somewhat over half had "significant psychological or physiological changes," Dr.

Cobb estimates. One man lost his hair --twice. Several wives developed peptic ulcers, rare in women. There were seven deaths, including one suicide. Most of the i sor cleared up with time and the men are functioning "reasonably well" now, Dr.

Cobb says. Their suffering, however, was intense, and a great fund of bitterness remains. Dr. Cobb is convinced that this need not be, and his recommendations appear to represent a compromise between the demands of some union leaders that no closing be alio without government permission and the arguments of some businessmen that they be allowed to do as please. AS THE PACE of technological change accelerates, more and more plants will become obsolete, and terminations will rise.

In the Detroit area, there is another factor at work: Plants built during the great boom years of the twenties have themselves reached the age of retirement. Companies often choose to rebuild in other states. "I personally would be in favor of finding ways to conduct plant closings in a hu- Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 1 Coat Florida recently replaced Michigan atop the list of champion trees, and In the view of some local people the Sunshine State's big trees group isn't playing fair. "There are several subtropical species that grow in no other state in the union besides Florida," said Thompson.

"All they have to do to get a national champion is find one example of those trees. A lot of us think there should be a special provision for that sort of thing." The AFA previously disallowed Michigan's claim for the largest Norway spruce (located in Novi) on the grounds that It wasn't a native American tree. MICHIGAN 'S big-trees group is quite active, organizing all sorts of campaigns to Please turn to Page. 4A, Col. 2 "We spotted the country's largest weeping willow a few years ago In Beverly Hills and put a tag on it," said Thompson, in his Office at the Cran-brook Institute of Science botany lab.

"When we visited the site again, there was a house there. Someone had bought the lot, cleared it off and built a home. I've got to think they weren't even aware of what they did. "Fortunately, we also had spotted a weeping willow on Detroit's east side that was nearly as big. So we kept the national champion in the state." That's an important consideration.

The big-tree-spotting business is highly competitive among the states. Currently, there is a lot of ill will on the part of Michigan tree-fanciers towards their Florida around the state, second highest total in the nation, and 17 of them are right in the metropolitan area. Aside from a few dedicated members of the Michigan Botanical Club, though, no one seems to care very much. The biggest pear tree in America sits unnoticed a few yards off busy Crooks Road in Clawson's industrial park. The biggpst gray dogwood In America was originally described by i Birmingham owner as a "big, mangy shrub." The biggest witch hazel In America rests unmarked in a steep ravine behind the Franklin Cider Mill.

WHAT IS WORSE, said Paul W. Thompson of the club's Big Trees Committee, is that a few national champions have not only been ignored but chopped down. BY GEORGE CANTOR Prtt Prtu Stiff Wrlttr The largest box elder tree in America makes Marge Law-son very nervous. It is about a century old and deteriorating rapidly. During heavy windstorms it petulantly flings enormous branches around her backyard and gives off unsettling creaks.

"It isn't really a nuisance," said Miss Lawson. "But we keep an eye on it." EXCEPT FOR Miss Law-' son's apprehensions, no one else in the Lahser-Grand River area, where the aged 81-foot-high giant grows, pays any attention to it at all. Very few of the residents are even aware that it is a champion tree, certified as the largest of its species in the country by the American Forestry Association (AFA). There are 50 such champs TED Matich: "7 ways grow beans." could at- Workers In Limb At 2 Plants BY RALPH ORR Prtt Prtu Liber Wrlttr There was a well-thumbed copy of Robert Townsend'a "Up the Organization" on the dining room table in Ted Ma-tich's pleasant colonial home in Harper Woods. Matich, an automatic screw machine operator at Federal-Mogul roller bearing plant on Hart has been re-reading the book now that the firm plans to phase out the plant in the next two to four years.

He underscored the book's sub-title with a thick, stubby workingman's finger: "How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits." I "Everything the book says corporations shouldn't do is what these companies that are folding up or leaving Detroit are doing," Matich said. Matich is one of 1,600 Federal-Mogul hourly employes in the Hart Ave. and Shoemaker plants who face the trauma of unemployment. For 364 already on layoff, both shoes have dropped. For the 1,600 still punching in every day, it is like waiting for a time bomb to go off.

They know it's there, but not when it will explode. "That's the worst part, not knowing," Matich said. MATICH IS 47 and has 22 years' seniority. Getting another job at his age may not be easy. He is nagged by that thought and some questions he wants answered.

If he gets a Job offer, should he take it and blow his severance pay of more than $5,000 which he would lose if he quit Federal-Mogul? IF HE WAITS until he is let go, will there be enough in the Supplemental Unemployment a Tomorrow a Fur "Some people chloroform 'em," he said, "some electrocute 'em and some just snap their necks." SCHUTZEN KNOWS his subject. He is one of the top chinchilla raisers in the country, and his Gunning black male, Billy Boy, took grand champion honors in its class at the three-day show. But Schutzen warns of the danger in getting emotionally involved with the animals: "You can't get attached to 'em If you're going into this for a business," he said. "Let's face it, you're going to have to kill some animals and pelt some animals." THE EMPRESS CO-OPERATIVE is a national association of chinchilla raisers which sponsors shows around the country. Sunday's show at the Dearborn Inn included 585 chinchillas and about 100 owners.

While the animals sat shivering in their stainless steel cages, the owners looked at various exhibits: Chinchilla hats, boas, coats, muffs, jackets, even a chinchilla corsage. The chinchilla people, sensitive to current concern for the fate of fur-bearing animals, insist that they're actually doing the little animals a service by marketing their pelts. "Chinchillas are extinct in the wilds," said one herder, "and the only way they're going to keep existing is if we keep making a profit." The show continued, with the Judges looking at plushness of fur and smoothness of color pattern, the breeders talking about newer, more effective techniques, and the chinchillas sitting dn the long rows of cages, their black, glitter-wet eyes roaring with dread. BY TOM NUGENT Prtt Prtts Stiff Wrlttr Silvers, beiges, charcoals, Gunning blacks: We're talking chinchillas now, hundreds of trembly chinchillas, crouching, twitching, scuttering in their silvery cages at the Dearborn Inn. Among the ranks of cages move solemn-faced men in white laboratory coats.

The judges. Peering here, prodding there, looking for fur density and muscle confirmation, as annual Michigan Empress Chinchilla Breeders Co-operative championship chinchilla show gathers to a climax. "No. 337," drones one Of the white-coated judges, "is the champion of the light-color class. Could we have No.

337 please. AND THEY BRING him out. Plump, furry and pulsating, like a live marshmallow. The 100-plus people at this Sunday morning chinchilla show nod approvingly, and then go on with their shop talk. "If you keep the cages relatively clean," says Robert Roberts, a Royal Oak salesman who runs a herd of chinchillas on the side, "then you don't get an overpowering odor.

See, chinchillas don't really smell bad at all. "If it got real, real strong, it still wouldn't be as strong as a one-day-old barn!" But there are other problems in raising chinchillas for profit. Certain delicacies that are difficult to talk about. "The female has a habit of rearing up and urinating at you," said Irwin Schutzen of Fremont, O. He shook his head sadly, and began to describe the usual methods for slaughtering a chinchilla: Benefit (SUB) fund to cover his severance pay? And will there be enough left in the pension fund to assure payment of his vested interest when he does retire? Or will it Please turn to Page 4A, Col.

1 Fret PrMl Photo bv STEVE THOMPSON The life of a breeder isn't always a bed of chinchilla fur: Note the well-chewed fingers of Rochester's William Metcalf..