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Today's Chuckle There's at least one schoolboy who knows about income tax. While saluting the flag he said: "I pledge my allowance to the flag. Frea Press telephones City News Desk 222-6600 To Place Want Ads 222-6800 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 For Home Delivery 222-6500 All Other Calls 222-6400 Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Thursday, November 22, 1979 IfORD. Teacher punished for failing 4 FREEWAYi ART INST.

LIBRARY PUTNAM 11 VPARA PARADE WARREN BEGINS a vMth-, at CANFIELD I Lillie Mann: "If you, as a teacher, don't set standards, what's the purpose? The students then might as well do how they want, when they want, if they want to do it at all." SELDEN MACK PETERBORO Santa9 scorning in the rain, dear By CATHY TROST Free Press Staff Writer It's probably going to rain on Detroit's 53rd annual Thanksgiving Day parade, but the weather isn't likely to dampen the spirits of the thousands of spectators expected. This year's parade, sponsored by the J.L. Hudson will have four giant balloons, 20 new floats, 22 bands and clown groups and more than 2,500 participants. Dr. Suess, the grand marshal, will kick off the parade at 9:30 a.m.

at Woodward and Putnam, across from the Detroit Institute of Arts. THE PARADE will last about 45 minutes and follow a 2 Vi-mile route, ending at Woodward and Fort. The head of the parade will arrive in front of Hudson's at about 10:15 a.m., and Santa Claus, riding the last float, should get there sometime before 11 a.m., when Mayor Young will present him with a key to the city. The weather forecast is for periods of rain with a temperature in the low 50s at parade time. Woodward Avenue will be closed to traffic between Putnam and Fort.

Barricades will be placed across Woodward intersections to stop east-west traffic, and there will also be barricades in the Woodward-Fort area to accommodate the disbanding of the parade. Pedestrian traffic will be prohibited on Woodward until See PARADE, Page 19A Li WATSON Free PressAL KAMUDA By JOE SWICKARD Free Press Staff Writer Llllie Mann is proud of the reputation she has earned in her eight years as an English teacher at Detroit's Mackenzie High School. "Firm, but fair yes," Mrs. Mann said. "I have a reputation around the school and the students are aware of it.

They come into my class and they already know what I expect" Mrs. Mann drew a 10-day suspension without pay from the Detroit school board Tuesday for living up to that reputation by refusing to accept overdue research papers from four college-bound senior students last May. The board suspended her for insubordination. When ordered by the school principal to accept the late papers and to grade them to the best of her ability, Mrs. Mann gave each paper an no credit" mark.

Mrs. Mann was suspended with pay at that point in May for the rest of the school year. Final grades all of them passing were given to all her students, including the four with the late papers, a school board spokesman said. BUT MRS. MANN has remained certain she did the correct thing.

"If you, as a teacher, don't set standards, what's, the she asked. "The students then might joining Mackenzie, said her not taking the overdue papers comes down to a "matter of principle." "I was not being overly hard. A lot of weight was being placed on that paper because that was the purpose of the course: preparing and writing a research paper," she said. She said more than 70 other students in the course managed to turn in their papers as required. "I was unfair to the others who broke their bottoms to do it.

Then these four get to slide through again by making excuses. They laugh at us. They know they can get away with murder; The lesson they learn from this is that they can just go on making excuses and getting by," Mrs. Mann said. SHE SAID the students knew at the start of the semester that late papers would not be "It was part of the requirement for the class and everyone knew it," Mrs.

Mann said. No date has been set for the start of Mrs. Mann's suspension from duties. However, she said she would appeal the ruling of the school board with the State Teacher Tenure Commission. "I'm a good teacher, I know I am," she said.

"This is part of life period. This is part of learning and growing up: taking responsibility and accepting the consequences." FREEWAY' FISHER as well do how they want, when they want, if they want to do it at all." Mackenzie principal Cleon Gilliam said when Mrs. Mann refused to accept the papers a day after they were due she was threatening those students' high school graduation "based on the fact that one paper was late." Gilliam said the punishment far outweighed the gravity of being late with the reports. "In our society we talk about the penalty fitting the crime; I don't think this was the case being applied here," he said. i 1 MRS.

MANN, WHO taught for four years before J.L. II IMA Alt FORT 1 PARADE ENDS CONGRESS Detroit Moslems cautious as crises continue City Unlikely Confusion caused by rumors nn i Next i Meet on Plant ewage MmmmMigm iiii iiiiiii liiisiiiii fst3 rrr- III t- 1 i "'M ffi ft ru4 wl By THOMAS BeVIER Free Press Staff Writer At 5 a.m. Wednesday, nearly an hour before predawn prayer at the Moslem Mosque in Dearborn's south end, Musa Jebril called a friend in Saudi Arabia to get the straight story on the latest Islamic The people of his mosque Indeed all of the 75,000 Moslems in the Detroit area had cause for concern; Mecca's Grand Mosque had been assaulted and there were rumors of American involvement. United States involvement in an attack on the holiest of Islam's shrines would be unthinkable, in Jebril's view. It would amount to the beginning of a holy war in which Moslems everywhere would be called upon to "sacrifice themselves, their money, everything." "The pillars of Islam are five and one is pilgrimage to Mecca once a life," Jebril said.

The place is that holy. "We were astonished to hear there could be U.S. involvement," he said. "And See MOSQUE, Page 19A "The question now is whether the (agreement) can be modified. 2 i Board split on budget for county By LUTHER JACKSON Free Press Staff Writer Free Press Photos by JOHN COLLIER Musa Jebril: "The pillars of Islam are five.

Imam Chirri: "We are deeply in love with the United States." The Wayne County Board of Commissioners, after failing to adopt a $280.7 million I 1 St -J Mt budget Tuesday night, is facing the possibility of beginning a new fiscal year Dec. 1 without a budget. Kresge ex-bookkeeper wins lie-detector suit BAR SQUABBLE Bragging oosball By CAREY ENGLISH Free Press Staff Writer The City of Detroit will apparently miss the Dec. 31 deadline for improving its sewage treatment plant, test results filed in U.S. District Court Wednesday indicate.

The results tend to confirm a position taken by the city earlier this year that it would probably be late in complying with clean water rules. Joe G. Moore hired by Mayor Young this year to help upgrade the plant, said in an Interview that the city is likely to ask the court for more time. FEDERAL AND state environmental officials have been pressing the city to live up to a 1977 promise to make substantial improvements at the plant according to a time schedule. The plant, on the Detroit River a few miles southwest of downtown, processes about 700 million gallons of sewage daily from Detroit and more than 70 suburban communities.

It has been called the major polluter of the river and Lake Erie. U.S. District Judge John Feikens, who has been overseeing the plant's compliance efforts, earlier this year ordered a full-scale test to see whether the plant could meet and maintain the standards. Moore said in the interview that the plant complied with most of the requirements outlined in the earlier court agreement, but failed in the amount of solid material left in the treated sewage. "THE QUESTION now is whether the (agreement) can be modified and whether Detroit should be penalized," Moore said.

"If (the agreement) can be modified, how much time can the city get?" Critics of the plant operation have called for appointment of an outside manager, such as the Army Corps of Engineers, to run the facility and bring it into compliance. But Feikens earlier this year said such a move would be a last resort. Meanwhile, he ordered Young to take whatever steps are necessary to make the required improvements. The test results are tentatively scheduled for discussion before Feikens Nov. 30.

Board Chairman Richard E. Manning said Wednesday he would try to put the budget before the commissioners killed winner is again on Nov. 29. "I think it will take that long for people to get their thoughts together," Manning said. Otherwise, the commissioners who have not shown any inclination to agree on county service cuts, could go into the fiscal year without a budget for the first time in its history.

A STATE official said Wednesday that the county would not violate state law if the commissioners do not adopt a budget by Dec. 1. "Presently there is nothing that says a budget has to be adopted by such and such a date," said Anton Presecan of Miss Voikos said Wednesday she agreed to take the lie-detector test because she was innocent of the charges. She said she was stunned when she was told she had failed it. Miss Voikos, 28, was a bookkeeper for the Highland Park Kresge store in 1974.

Her complaint said that she was accused of theft after she reported a $150 cash shortage to the store manager in May 1974. She said an unspecified amount of money was found to be missing over the next several weeks. Kresge lawyer Patrick McLain said Wednesday the company is consdering appealing the verdict but he declined to comment further. "I'm very, very pleased," Miss Vikos sftid She said, "It's like they partially restored my faith in humanity because, I'll tell you, after that incident happened, my faith and trust In people dwindled to almost nothing. I became almost a recluse." See KRESGE, Page 16A By BILLY BOWLES Free Press Staff Writer The S.S.

Kresge Co. was ordered Wednesday to pay a Detroit woman $100,000 in damages for subjecting her to a lie-detector test in a Highland Park Holiday Inn in 1974 after she was accused of stealing money from the store where she worked. The verdict was brought by a six-member jury in Wayne County Circuit Court following a five-week-long trial before Judge Robert J. Columbo. The jury received the case about 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday and returned the verdict two hours later. Legislation is pending in Congress to ban the use of polygraph devices (lie-detectors) by employers nationwide. SINCE 1973, it has been illegal in Michigan for an employer to require a worker to take a polygraph examination, but the accused employe in this case, Linda Voikos, took the test voluntarily. A quarrel over a man's skill at foosball, a coin-operated bar game, led to the stabbing death of a 33-year-old Detroit man, police said Wednesday. Police said Ronald Wilson was stabbed to death at the Aorta Bar, 376 W.

McNichols, shortly after he made sarcastic remarks about Roderick Earl Talley's ability to play foosball. The incident occurred about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. FOOSBALL is played on a table patterned after a soccer field in which participants handling miniature soccer players mounted on poles attempt to push a ball into the opposing player's net for a score. Homicide Detective William Brantley said Talley lost two games to Wilson and Wilson "razzed" Talley about it.

Talley, 31, left the bar and returned about five minutes later, confronting Wilson with a large Bowie knife. POLICE SAID Talley swung the knife, which had a 1 5-inch blade, at Wilson, cutting his left cheek deeply. Wilson fell to the floor, saying, "He cut me, man." Brantley said Talley stabbed Wilson once in the back, severing Wilson's aorta. Four men in the bar held Talley for police. Wilson died at the scene.

Free Press MAR SCHROEDER Linda Voikos: "They partially restored my faith in humanity because, after that incident happened, my faith and trust in people dwindled to almost the state's Municipal Finance Commission. "But the longer they wait See BUDGET, Page 14A tippff Bibl with baby? Detroit Zoo staffers and friends are hoping that Bibi the rhinoceros will present them with a Yuletide bundle of Joy. They think Bibi is expecting a baby. They're not sure, because testing would subject the popular rhino to too much stress. Plus she's of the build that is hard to tell.

If big Bibi is Indeed with little rhino, she would give birth in midwinter." Animal-loss lawsuit What do you do when you ship two stuffed animals overseasi and they don't show up at the airport? Esther Edwards (right), sister of Berry Gordy the man who created Motown Records, sued. Dressed in a fur and jewels, she went to Wayne County Common Pleas Court Wednesday and argued her case against Northwest Orient Airlines. Ms. Edwards had bought nine unusual stuffed animals in Rome and ordered them shipped back here. Two, however, are missing.

Judge Michael Stacey awarded $81 and attorney fees on her behalf, since a cartage company already coughed up $250. But the judge declined to award her damages for frustration and aggravation. Ms. Edwards said later Wednesday that she might appeal that ruling "because there is a principle involved." Reagan renegade There's one Democrat who would rather switch. He's John L.

Grubba, managing director of the Oakland County Road Commission and a lifelong Democrat. "I'm for Ronald Reagan" the leading GOP presidential contender, Grubba confided Wednesday. And then he quipped, "When I told my mother, she wouldn't invite me over for Thanksgiving dinner." It doubtless eases Grubba's hunger pangs to know that one of his bosses, Oakland County road Commissioner John Gnau, is the Reagan campaign chairman in Michigan. Transbus on Its way The DeLorean Motor Co. is "actively pursuing" its plans to build buses.

In September, John Z. DeLorean surprised a lot of people when he announced that his new firm could build Transbus, the federally mandated vehiclequipped for the handicapped that General Motors said couldn't be built at the government's price. The prototype that DeLorean unveiled a few months ago has "generated enthusiasm," according to a DeLorean spokesman. Since then, 26 cities have requested demonstration models for test programs, and the company says it can.have 20 built by next June. The spokesman said the bus, called DMC-80, is competitive in price with existing buses.

In addition, It's reportedly twice as-fuel efficient, shorter by three feet, lighter by three ions, and equipped with wheelchair lift or ramp, ide doors and low floors. IliBpr llwill Compiled by DONNA URSCHEL.