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WARM High 80-87. Low 55-6(1 Continued Fair Mas and Details on Pint ill HOURLY TEMPERATURES B.m. IS 7 p.m. 79 it cm. 7 METRO N.Y.

Exchange Dips As Investors Lose Interest Sec Page 10, Section A ON GUARD FOR 140 YEARS Vol. 141 No. 101 Saturday, August 14, 1971 4 p.m. 85 p.m. 84 4 p.m.

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71 10 p.m. 69 QO OQ Penta Judge ays gon I i Tried to Vets' 'Parley' way Action Line solve problem, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m..

and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. My foster son Is in basic training at Fort Knox and he's not getting medical help needs. He called last night and said they're threatening to list him as AWOL for time he spent in the Veterans Administration Hospital here with pneumonia. He was actually crying on the phone, and I'm going crazy with worry.

Please help! H.S., Southgate. Fort Knox hospital is taking care of your son now. Army gave him battery of tests after Action Line's call, sent for VA i Hospital records that show he was running a temperature of 105 degrees when Uncle Sam thought he was absent without leave. Army tests verified chronic back problem, led to limits on service they'll expect from your son and special barracks accom Punching Threat Bared BY DAVID COOPER Free Press StaH Writer A Detroit judge said Friday that an Army major from the Pentagon tried to get the convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Detroit to pass 11 pro-Pentagon resolutions drafted by the Pentagon. Judge Benjamin C.

Stanczyk of Wayne County Common Pleas Court said that when he objected to the proposed resou-tions, the Army officer threatened to punch him. JUDGE STANCZYK'S charges were made public Friday by television personality Lou Gordun, who will air a taped interview with Stanczyk at 10 p.m. Saturday on his Channel 50 7 THE SOUND OF THAT Yl -Mv, (iwKs, we're crazy, for eating corn on the cob, can't understand finger-lickin' method either. London newspaper once explained proper Yank procedure to readers, claimed guys with real style nibble like rabbits." WW Pol Iff Be- ii-4J Irtffy SfeW- 4i. i Judge Stanczyk, a World War'Il veteran and member of the DAV's committee on national security, identified the officer as M.aj.

George H. Chase. During their argument over the resolutions brought to Detroit by Chase, the judge said, the major told him: "If you persist in this, I've got a damn good notion to knock you down on your dirty little ass." The whole incident. Judge Stanczyk said, reminded him of the controversial CBS television documentary, "The Selling of the Pentagon," which detailed the U.S. Defense Department's multimillion-dollar public relations program.

Maj. Chase, identified by the Pentagon as assigned to the community relations division of the Army's office of ehief of information, was in Los Angeles Friday attending the national Amvets convention. He said he had no comment on Judge Stanczyk's allegations. AT THE Pentagon. Lt.

Col. Donald Wakefield of the office of the assistant secretary of ssa -jLj. the car found at Free Press Photo by IRA RObENBERG hodv is at rifIil. Action investigate i 4 Slain Road; Hinted in; 6-Day Hume Delivery Toe JUDGE Stanczyk: "I didn't think wanted to be salesmen fur the Pentagon." defense for public affairs made this statement: "We did send two representatives out there (to the DAV convention in Detroit). They were asked to assist the DAV by providing information about current DOD (Department of Defense) programs.

Precisely in what method this was done, I don't know." The prepared resolutions Turn to Page 2A, Column I In Washington, the White House said it does not plan at the moment to do anything about Wallace's action because, in the White House view, no law has been violated. Asked for the administration's reaction to Wallace's order, presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler replied: "The governor of Alabama has made some statements. We will continue to watch the situation We will deal with the situation when it forms." ZIEGLER said it is up to the courts that issued the integration order to i ne whether its order was violated. He said the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Justice Department are assessing the situation.

"We don't know what Wallace's intentions arc," said Ziegler. "It is difficult for us to anticipate what the governor might do, what the school board might do or what the courts might do." The governor, a potential presidential candidate in 1972, suggested that Mr. Nixon issue an unequivocal executive order halting, nationwide, the practice of busing to achieve racial balance in the schools. Wallace said the chief executive should also direct the Justice Department to ask fed-Turn lo P-t-zc 2A. fJ ''snri ti Aide Block prepared my income tax this year and sure enough, the IRS is charging me a penalty and interest for Block's mistake.

A man at Block's office said they won't pay it. What good is their guarantee? E.H., Flint. Good enough to cover $15 IRS wants from you. Office manager told Action Line you can bring tax statement to him for payment. Manager claimed guy who talked to you didn't know what he was doing.

Company's guarantee says Block will pay penalty or interest charges, doesn't include extra tax dough client may have to come up with. IRS says guarantee can't cost Block much since most penalties are for deliberate evasion, not small mistakes. Company has no reason to deliberately falsify returns. My daughter is going away to college for the first time. When I try to explain about being careful she says, "Oh, ma, it can't happen to me." Does Action Line know where I could get a book on self-defense to slip in her luggage? Mrs.

B.B., Garden City. Packet of safety booklets from Detroit Police Department is in the mail. Pamphlets include self-protection tips for women and children, information on laws that affect teens, and thoughts on thwarting burglars in the dorm. Cops expand on warnings all moms repeat: Don't walk alone at night, get out your house keys before leaving the car, yell for help if trouble comes. Others can get free booklets at nearest police precinct.

the scene. A covered on Link THE BODIES were found by Jack Dalton, nlio owns the property. relatives at McPherson Community Health Center in Howell as Garry Hankerson, 22, of 30051 Spring Arbor; Larry Crenshaw, 23, of 30001 Liberty, and Rodney McCarthy. 20, of 30242 Carlyle, all of 'inkster. and Matthew King III, 21, of 30143 Julius, Westland.

Kizer said: "The motive for this I'm not sure of; it's speculation, but this is an execution JV Drug BY JAMES HARPER AM) JOHN OPPEDAHL Fre Presi SUM Writer HARTLAND Four young black men, residents of south-w Detroit suburbs, were found shot to death near a country road in this Livingston County community at about 8 a.m. Friday. The deaths, which State Po-1 i tentatively linked with gunshot sounds heard by residents Thursday night, were termed "executions" by Livingston County Prosecutor Tom Kizer. of the men died of small-caliber gunshot wounds in the head. THE BODIES were found by Jack Dalton, 50, a Hartland Township resident, shortly after 8 a.m.

as he made an impromptu tour along Cundy Rd. at the back of his property. The site is just off M-59, east of U.S. 23. The manner in which the bodies were found Dalton thought they were asleep when he stumbled on them recalled recent drug-related executions.

The four were identified bv Action of the type recently in Detroit that were connected with the narcotic wars." Police said they are also investigating a possible link between the deaths and a $14,000 holdup at the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. at 2727 S. Beech Daly in Dearborn Heights," shortly before noon Thursday. Three men were seen participating in this robbery. The four bodies lay in a rough diamond pattern, heads pointing in the same direction; two were lying face down, one on the side and one face up.

They were about 20 feet away from a greenish-bronze 1970 Cadillac convertible which State Police said was registered to the mother of one of the victims. State Police said the four had been reported missing to Inkster police at about 3 a.m. by Mrs. Shirley Hankerson, wife of Garry Hankerson. Dalton, head of a carpet cleaning firm in Detroit and owner of the land where the bodies were found, said he decided "on some hunch" to tour Turn to Page 2A, Column 3 modation to make sleeping easier.

Commanding officer promised illness won't be ignored again. My dad and I have quarreled for years about corn. He says you can hear it grow on hot nights. Can Action Line settle the argument once and for all? G.M., Rochester. Story's pure corn.

Plants grow at night if day was hot and humid, caused enough photosynthesis to keep cells working overtime, but the only sound you'll hear is breeze or animals rustling through the stalks. Reason for sweet corn's syrupy flavor is lots of natural sugar, but stuff has to be picked while it's young to keep sugar from building up, tastine gooey. British think Line Line THE QUESTION Would you fly on a commercial airline if the pilot were a woman? QUESTION cheating on his income to the Internal Revenue To Vote NO Call 961-4422 Wallace Defies Court. Orders School Reopened From UPi and AP TROY, Ala. Still insisting that he is trying to help President Nixon, Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace countermanded a second federal school busing order Friday and threatened to strike down still another next Monday unless the administration acts. In his latest move, Wallace ordered the reopening under a freedom-of-choice plan of an all-black school closed two weeks ago by a federal court to hasten integration. The governor invoked the police power of the state and issued an executive order commanding the Limestone County School Board in northwest Alabama to reopen the predominantly black New Hope Junior High School. Its students had been reassigned to schools 20 miles away.

Even though federal courts have rejected freedom-of -choice as an acceptable formula for desegregation, Wallace told the school board to allow pupils in the New Hope community to attend whichever schools they choose. If the U.S. changes to the metric system I want to be prepared. How can I start changing miles to kilometers and pounds to kilograms? B.O., Detroit. Simple.

Mile equals 1.6 kilometers, so all you have to do is multiply'distance in miles by 1.6. Centimeters are tougher, count .393 inch: Meter equals 39.37 inches. (Kilometer is 1,000 meters; centimeter's one-hundreth of a meter.) To get weight in kilograms, divide number of pounds by 2.2. National Bureau of Standards claims switch will be easy, expects school kids to start learning metric system this fall. Next step will be dual labeling with U.S.

and metric standards on food and merchandise. System will help out grown-ups who'll have a harder time with new math. You can find complete metric tables in most almanacs. Ferris State College will graduate its first nursing class in two weeks and we just found out that the pins we ordered won't be here on time. The graduation is special to the school as well as the class.

Can Action Line get them to work a little faster on our pins? S.R., Big Rapids. Don't worry. Pins-and-needles feeling about tokens was wiped out when Action Line called manufacturer in Grand Rapids. He'll send 'em out first class on the 20th, have 'em at Ferris in time for ceremony August 22. Pins for 10-member class have original design engraved by an artist on die used to stamp them out.

Design includes wreath and words "School of Health Science and Arts." U.S. Drops Kent State Slay in gs I -FrorrjAPndUPI WASHINGTON Attorney General John N. Mitchell said Friday that the Justice Department would take no further action in the killing of four Kent State University students May 4, 1970, even though facts supported the finding of a presidential commission that the deaths were "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable." Closing the Justice Department's books on the incident, Mitchell said the government's exhaustive review "persuades me that there is no credible evidence of a conspiracy between National Guardsmen to shoot students on the campus, and that there is no likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen." He expressed sympathy with the parents of the four Kent State students fatally shot by Guardsmen during nationwide demonstrations against President Nixon's announcement that U.S. and South Vietnamese troops had invaded Cambodia. "We can only hope that any type of recurrence can be avoided by this experience," said Mitchell, "and that incidents like this will never again be a part of our national life." After the shootings, a Portage County (O.) grand jury issued a report exonerating the Guardsmen, indicting 25 students on riot-related charges and criticizing the Kent State administration.

MITCHELL SAID the "facts available to me" supported Turn to Page 5A, Column 1 Amusements 4B Ann Landers MA Astrology AB Billy Graham I2B Bridge Business News 10-I2A Comics 9-1 IB Crossword Puzzle 9B Death Notices 5B Editorials 6A Feature Page I3A Movie Guide 10-1 IB Names and Faces 12B Obituaries 5B Religion 4A Real Estate 7-9A Sports 1-4B Stock Markets 10-I2A Television I2A Want Ads 5-8B Women's Page MA HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE: 222-6500 Or Your Local Free Press Number Bute 1 i mir TKACIIIili MUST REAPPLY ffe's Now a She: School Job Periled HOW YOU VOTED YES, 58.S percent. COMMENTS: "Women can do anything men can do" "Sex has nothing to do with ability" "I'd be the first aboard" "I wouldn't worry any more with a woman pilot than I do with a man" "Especially if she's single and between 18 and 24" "But I'd rather they didn't tell me till it was over" "All this and stewardesses too!" NO, 41.7 percent. COMMENTS: "I believe in equality of the sexes but isn't there something they'd rather do?" "A woman would panic in an emergency" "Not if she drives a plane the way my wife drives a car" "They cause lien enough grief without that" "If I'm tired of living I'll shoot myself." From UP and AP BASKING RIDGE, N.J. The question before the Bernards Township school board was, very simply: Is a man who is now a woman the same person? The board decided that since music teacher Paul Grossman, 52, had his sex changed through surgery and became Mrs. Paula Miriam Grossman, she is physically a different person than the Paul Grossman who taught in the school district for 14 years.

So the board ruled that if Mrs. Grossman wants to return to the district as a teacher, she must apply to the board as a beginner. Mrs. Grossman had told the board she underwent the surgery earlier this year "for health reasons." Board President Paul Mallon said Mrs. Grossman was asked to resign the position she had as a male teacher in an elementary school and apply for a new one as a female teacher at a high school.

Mallon said the board would move to suspend her if she d'd not resign voluntarily. Mrs. Grossman, dressed in a brown, knee-length skirt, white sleeveless blouse and sporting bright-red nail polish, told newsmen after the- ruling was announced: "I will not give up my tenure. I have no intention of resigning." Mrs. Grossman says she wants to keep her job and will continue to live with her wife of 19 yeafs 'and their three children.

"My family has always been with me," the teacher said. Her attorney, Herbert Kestner, said the next move would be a hearing before State Education Commissioner Carl F. Mar-burger, probably within the next two weeks. TOMORROW'S If your employer were tax, would you report him Service? To Vote ES Call Ml -111 UPI Photo Paula M. Grossman (left), who surgically crossed (he sex barrier from man to woman, with her wife of 19 years, Ruth.

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