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69 Sunday, July lf, 1972 een Stalling on Teamster Case 8 i f) KOO Politics Shielding Fiizsimi noils' Son? Action Line solves ptoblems, gets answers cut tape, stands tip for your right. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 4S231. Or eliat 222-6464 tetween 8:30 flutn. a4 p.m.

Monday through Friday. is common talk around the union hall that he is home free because it was all squared in Washing '7 fciton' of no preferential treatment in Washington and there certainly is in Detroit." Lawrence Leff, Justice Dept. attorney in Detroit BY RALPH ORR Free Press Labor Writer Copvrloht 1972, Detroit Free Press A case involving the alleged misuse of union funds by Richard F. Fitzsimmons, son of the Teamsters Union general president, has been gathering dust in Justice Department files for nearly eight months, the Free Press has learned. Reliable sources say the delay has strong political overtones.

They insist that influence has been brought to bear because of the Teamsters' new friendship with the Nixon administration. Informants, including some Teamsters, contend that federal law enforcement officials in Detroit have been pressured by Washington to stall prosecution. FITZSIMMONS IS recording secretary of Teamsters Local 299, Detroit. His father, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, now enjoys a first-name acquaintanceship with President Nixon.

Justice Department officials in Detroit and Washington denied there had been any attempts to sweep the case under a rug. They said the proof was indaequate. The Washington spokesman said there has been no pressure from the White House on the case. But one source still insisted: "The shots are being called in Washington," and said officials are seeking to avoid embarrassment for the Nixon administration. Richari Fitzsimmons said: "I have no comment at all.

I ton. don't know anything about it." BUT AUTHORITIES have known for at least a year that his wife and two daughters used his Teamster credit card to purchase more than $1,500 worth of gasoline far two family cars. The credit card apparently also was used for other purposes which have interested federal investigators. Union regulations permit Fitzsimmons to use the card only for gas for the 1972 Lincoln Continental provided for him by Local 299, and for other non-personal expenditures while conducting union business. Embezzlement of union funds is a violation of the federal Landrum-Griffin labor act.

It is punishable by five years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine or both. The penalty carries with it a five-year ban on holding union office or working for a union. The evidence has not gone to the federal grand jury, but the Free Press has learned that Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley also is interested in the case. Fitzsimmons has repaid several hundred dollars to Local 29D. informants said.

But a highly-placed Teamster who is no friend of the Fitzsim-monses said: "The fix is in." He added: "It is common talk around the union hall that hf is home free because it was all squared in Washington." Please turn to Page ISA, Col. 1 Highly placed Teamster aide My five-year-old son found an arrowhead at a baseball field near our house. Where could I find out how old it is? L.M., Union Lake. You've got a real find. Charles Martinez, president of the Michigan Archaeological Society, came to your house, took a look at your arrowhead and asked your little boy for a guided lour of that baseball field.

Your son uncovered an Early Archaic bifurcated (split base) weapon that was chipped out of stone around 6,000 B.C. Arrow was probably part of an Atlatl, spear of same cultural time zone, that was used to kill elk, deer, caribou and maybe even mastodon. Find was of special interest to archaeology buff Martinez because earliest remains of man in Michigan comes from your area southeast of Union Lake. Contractors dredging there in 1957 turned up a portion of a skull that dates from about 5,000 B.C. Martinez didn't find anything hits at Resumption this time, plans to do some more sand-sifting at the ball field.

While walking home last week I nearly stepped on a nest of duck eggs. They're in a little field right between two parking lots, and I'm afraid someone will step on them. Can you help? R. Dearborn. Dearborn Humane Society and police analyzed urban mallard situation, decided best way to protect nest is to leave it alone so mother and father duck are free to come and go.

Police gave the word to Dearborn Parks and Recreation Department which promised to banish its mowers from the area until duck family toddles off. Takes about 28 days for ducklings to hatch, another 3 war ecre AP Pho'o 1 7.5 John F. Kennedy Jr. wears a baseball cap during a recent visit to a New York Mets game. Wool JFK Jr.

itkl Tr VAIi two weeks before they're in the swim. Barricading nest area rould make mallard parents nervous enough to orphan eggs like Henrietta who had to face rigors of parenthood alone after papa duck had enough of domestic responsibilities at Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent. Henrietta hatched nine ducklings, her little parade across Grand River. Police stopped traffic, took family into protective custody and released them at a nearby cemetery pond. I own land in Lapeer County and plan to build a house.

Four families have been dumping raw sewage in a creek that drains through my property into a nearby river. The stench is terrible. I've called the county and the township health officer there, but nothing has been done. What are they waiting for? C.P., Sterling Heights. Sixty days to go by.

That's now much time Almoin Township health officer gave your neighbors to install septic fields. Offenders have septic "tanks that overflow into drainage tiles on your lot. State law doesn't specify time limit for correction of health violations, leaves it to local health departments' discre Kidnap Plot KHBOKHWD Uncovered vrr" -r To Basing Waving placards and applauding anti busing speeches, a crowd of between 2,000 and 1,001) persons staged a rally in Southgate Saturday to protest court-ordered cross-district school busing. U.S. Reps.

William Ford and John Dingell and State Rep. Thomas J. Anderson led a contingent of government and school officials who spoke to the crowd at a football stadium alter a 2-mile march from the Southgate Board of F.duca-tion offices. All the speakers denounced the June 14 desegregation decision of U.S. District Judge Stephen J.

Roth requiring busing between Detroit and 52 suburbs. F-rrf Prr--i Pnoto 11 ROB SLOIT i ATHENS (UPl)-Greek authorities Saturday announced the arrests of 12 persons, including eight Greeks in Proposals Bv Hanoi Give Hoik From AP nd UPI A CLEMENTL. of State William Rogers Saturday held open the possibility of new secret Vietnam peace talks and said slight nuances" in Ha noi's latest: proposals "givr some encouragement." Lmerging from an hour-Ion? meeting with President Nixon Rogers told newsmen he did not want to raise prematura hopes of progress toward end ing the wa r. HE WOULD OTcomm-n! directly on the statement Sat urday by (he chief North Vie! namese negotiator. 1 Du Tho, who said he is ready to hold more private talks with presidential adviser Hen Kissinger if Kissinger a "something new" to discuss.

But Rogers said the United States is "prepared lo have any kind of diplomatic activity" that holds hope for peace. Rogers came to the western White House to report to Mr Nixon on the ll-natiou around-the-world tour he com pleted Wednesday. He said hr found in the countries he vi.s ited that Mr. Nixon is garded as the world leader in the cause for peace." KISSINGER, r. Nixun assistant for national secunn affairs, has held more than a dozen private sessions with North Vietnamese negotiator's in the past three years.

He sat in on the President's meet ins with Rogers. Kissinger has been silent cn whether he would make an other trip to Paris for serrct Please turn to Page I2A, tul. I North iet names troops in Quang Tri City's citadel ordered to "hold until death." Pagf 15F. 4h 4 1 'y Integration: A 20-Year War tion, especially when required improvements are costly. If your neighbors go beyond 60 day limit Almont Township set, health officer can go to court or condemn their property.

Your new neighbors might be short on neighborliness when you move in septic fields will cost them about $700 apiece. But clean smelling air might help them forgive you. There is a young man here, 21, who spends three days a week, five hours a day, on a kidney machine. He has a ticket to ee the Rolling Stones. His doctor advises him not to go alone, but to go with someone in case he faints.

He's been looking forward to going for a long time and he'll go alone if he has to. We can't talk him out of it and it's impossible to get a second ticket now. What can we do? M.Q., Wayne County General Hospital. He went to the concert lnday. Action Line told the Stones about your friend's tenacity.

Stones sent Action Line a ticket which went to Wayne State medical student Joe Campau. Cam-pau picked up your friend, took him to Cobo where they watched performance from seats Cobo personnel arranged for them. My grandson in California has been selected to play on a little league all-star team. He's 12, but needs his birth certificate by Monday to prove it. fie was born here, but the City-County Building won't give it to me.

They said his mother would have to get it and that it would take a month. Please help, he'll be broken hearted if he can't play. MRS. W.F., Warren. He'll play.

Thank Couniy Clerk Joe B. Sullivan, who tracked down the certificate in City of Detroit files. Sullivan sent it air-mail special delivery Friday. County will give certificate to anyone. City won't will only pass 'em out to parents, or the person.

Channel 4 signed off my TV set on July 4. At first I thought it was my TV, but all the other channels come in loud and clear, and my neighbors have the same problem. Can you find out what's causing this? D.O., Detroit. Fuzz on 4 will be gone this week. After Action Line called, teams from WWJ and Detroit Edison armed with electronic interference snoopers staked out your neighborhood, came up with a suspect new alarm system in a nearby building.

Electric appliances, even a defective doorbell, can come between broadcast tower and your TV set. Edison said interference usually sabotages more than one station. Edison's radio and TV interference number is 962-2100, ext. 70235. one gang and four West Germans in another, on charges of plotting to kidnap John F.

Kennedy the 11-year-old son of the late American president. Police said the two gangs also planned to carry out a series of other kidnapings, as well as robberies and bombings. THE FOUR West Germans were identified by authorities as members of the terrorist "20th October Movement" while the other gang was composed entirely of Greeks inspired by ideas of what police called the "new left." Police said one of the suspects, identified as Panayotis Kabanas, 45, a literature teacher and economist, told them the gangs intended "if we were well kidnap young Kennedy. "We could have blackmailed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for as much money as we wanted," police said Kabanas told them. The former Mrs.

John F. Kennedy is now the wife of Greek shipping magnate and industrialist Aristotle Onassis. Friends said Mrs. Onassis, her children and several friends were cruising in the Aegean Sea aboard the family yacht Christina when the plot was revealed. Police said the gangs also planned to kidnap government Please turn to Page 9A, Col.

1 First four articles BY WILLIAM GUAM Free Presj Education Writer lii September, 1951, the Rev. Oliver Brown walked his 6-year-old daughter to a school in her Topeka (Kan.) neighborhood and tried to enroll her. Twenty years later the shock wave from that walk reached Detroit and its suburbs to produce a wrenching political controversy over busing and school integration with national political and social overtones. What Mr. Brown tried to do that day was enroll his black daughter in an all-white school a few blocks away.

She was turned away and told to go instead to the nearest all-black school, 24 blocks away. A FEDERAL COURT suit was filed, and on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court said in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka that "separate education facilities are inherently unequal." The decision signaled not only the end ot the "separate but equal" doctrine which had been outlined by the Supreme Court in 1896, but was the beginning of what has frequently been called by some social scientists "the second American Scarcely a city or town has not been touched in some way, from Denver at the foot of the snow-capped Rockies to industrial Pontiac in Michigan, from Boston on the Atlantic to San Francisco on the Pacific, from Corpus Christi in Texas to South Holland in Illinois. Now the movement toward school integration is at a crossroads.

The pressure against integration is greater than at any other time since 1954. The new national catchword now is "busing" as transportation of students by school buses is used increasingly as the means of integrating schools located in all-white or all-black neighborhoods. And people are talking about something called the "neighborhood school" as if it were a part of the American education tradition. In fact the tradition has been just the opposite toward merger of school systems and consolidation of small Please turn to Page 12A, Col. I Belle Isle Gator Has a Night Out I HE QUESTION Should Bobby Fischer pick up his chessmen and go home? -T-ir-i mi iiihti mil i.

in i hi in JWjfV 1 tvJ 11 i HOW YOU VOTED YLS, 88.8 percent. COMMENTS: "He might he a genius, but he is an ugly American" "He's losing them all anyway" "1 hope he is home by September so he can enroll in nursery school" "We should give citizenship to Spassky" "It makes one ashamed that he represents us" "He's a big, big baby." "He sure does not represent me." NO, 11.2 percent. COMMENTS: "All that really matters is that he play chess" "He's putting on a great show" "He shouldn't come home at all BY JAMES HARPER Free Press SttH Writer Investigate "a possible alligator" in the fountain, the Detroit police radio told a Belle Isle scout car crew early Saturday. A possible alligator, indeed! Patrolmen George Vail and Ronald Goodrich went to Scott Fountain on the south end of the isle and, sure as shooting, there he was amid the bronze turtles and marble lions: A possible alligator. IN FACT, a very real alligator, the two officers decided.

So they waited for daylight and reinforcements before netting the beast and dragging him from the pool lo the harbormaster's office. "They called me from the police station," Belle Isle Aquarium attendant Leroy May said later, "and asked did I lose an alligator. And 1 said I had. And they said could I identify him. And I said is he about four feet long, and they said it was, and 1 said that's him." And so the alligator, nicknamed Nomad after his travels, was dumped back into the tank for public viewing Saturday, just as if nothing hud been amiss.

There had been relatively little danger to humans while Please turn to Page 2A, Col. I Amusement! 4-8E Ann Landers 9C Astrology 160 Books 5B Bridge I4C Business News 10-1SF Crossword Puzzle 3E Death Notices 8D Editorials 2B Movie Guide 8E Names and Faces 15A Obituaries 8D Opinion 3B Outdoors 7D People Page J5A Radio MC Sports 1-7D Stock Markets 1M5F Travel 1-3E TV Late Changes 15C Want Ads 8-16D Women's Pages 1-12C HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6500 Or Your Local Free Press Number TOMORROW'S QUESTION Joseph and Lois Bird, authors of "Power to the Parents," say there's no evidence spanking harms children. Do you believe in spanking your children? To Vote YES To Vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 961-4122 miiiimi mwmw OTinmiii-iiiiiwiMi uiMmiMiii ifnir-in-iiiiifitMMiTMiTi1ni'fT Free Press Photo bv RICHARD LII Nomad the gator is back home with turtle pals after his escapade.