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Rams, Sleclcrs will tangle in the Super Bowl Details on Page 1D 1 980. Detroit ree Press. Inc. metro Very windy High 25, low 7 Details on Page 17D 20c Volume 149, Number 248 ON GUARD FOR 148 YEARS Monday, January 7, 1980 Zoo famed chimp dies at 40 lime i Write Action Line, Box 88 1 Detroit, Mich. 4823 1 Or dial 222-6464 trom 8:30 a.m p.m.

Monday-Friday. Loan problem In 1972 I attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts. I still owe Hampshire the $430 balance on a National Defense Student Loan I took out back then. The way the loan works, as long as you're a full-time student, you don't have to make payments. Since I'm now enrolled at U-M, I filed papers last September with Hampshire to defer payments on the loan.

Something went wrong, because they've been dunning me. I've tried straightening this out, but the situation hasn't changed. Can you help? S.U, Plymouth Sure thing. Student accounts rep at Hampshire College in Amherst, told Action Line that reason you were still "He was a great guy, I liked him," Willson said Sunday. "He was almost human he had a very high intelligence quotient.

"I remember one of his old trainers always used to give him a cigar. Jo Mendi always liked a cigar. Well, one day, this trainer, who Jo Mendi hadn't seen in quite a while, went to visit him at the zoo. He was smoking a cigar and walked right up to Jo Mendi's cage. "Of course, Jo Mendi raised holy hell.

He recognized the guy and reached right out and grabbed his cigar. He smoked it down to the butt, flicking ashes all the while." Willson also said Jo Mendi was noted for his performances in the Detroit City Council chambers, where zoo officials would take him when budget time rolled around. "He'd get right up on the tables," Willson said. death, and surmised the chimp simply died of old age. "He had lost a couple of pounds of weight recently but had regained it and was very active," Morgan said.

"This was completely unexpected." Morgan said the chimp's body, which was kept at the zoo Sunday night, would be taken to Michigan State University Monday for an autopsy. JO MENDI had lived at the zoo since 1 943. He was an active performer in the zoo's animal show until his retirement in 1953. According to Robert Willson, zoo director from 1968 to 1974, the chimp was "a ham from the word go." Aquarium's new dolphin dies. Page 16D By SALLY SMITH Free Press Staff Writer Jo Mendi II, the celebrated chimpanzee whose performances in animal shows enthralled generations of Detroiters, was found dead in his cage at the Detroit Zoo Sunday.

At 40, the chimp was believed the oldest of his kind in captivity. "He'll be missed he was the star of the show for a long time," said Joe Morgan, deputy director at the zoo. "A lot of people came out to the zoo just to see Jo Mendi, and even the young people had heard about him from their parents." MORGAN SAID zoo keepers found the chimp dead in his cage early Sunday morning when they made their regular rounds. He said Jo Mendi's health had been good until his Jo Mendi II, "the star of the show." Jo Mendi II was named after the first Jo Mendi, a fine performing chimp who had appeared in a Broadway play as well as in the zoo's animal show. The first Jo Mendi died in the early 1940s.

"j.iim mm 1 1 iiinniimi unm i imi mm Carter Insis getting dunning notices was because loan deferment papers never reached college. Notices will stop now that official has given pending status to your payment account. And Hampshire will give you three months to get duplicates of papers to them. This time you'll use registered mail. More on 17A action line: How long would U.S.

survive without oil imports? sound off: Should Chrysler aid include Hamtramck? IS OnS anctions Teamsters president has cancer, paper says LOS ANGELES (UPI) Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons has abdominal cancer, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner reported Sunday. In a front-page copyrighted story, columnist James Bacon said two unidentified union officials told him cancer had been discovered throughout Fitzsimmons' abdomen during surgery a few Iran Agains Samuel Turner Wayne County's future 77 I i ,1 days before 1 r' 1 wi jj III As the new chairman of the 27-member Wayne County Board of Commissioners, Samuel A. Turner will have to combat an $1 8 million deficit and possibly more payless paydays. Turner, a 53-year-old Detroit attorney, defeated incumbent chairman Richard E. Manning in a 14-9 vote last week.

Turner has been a member of the board since 1873. Christmas. (In Detroit, Robert Holmes, fourth vice-president of the international union, confirmed he had been informed by tel ill 1 A yi'i'4 jut Fitzsimmons Indira Gandhi greets supporters Sunday and warns both the Soviet Union and the U.S. From UPI and AP President Carter told United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim Sunday night that the United States wants the United Nations to proceed with economic sanctions against Iran to protest the holding of American hostages. During a two-hour meeting at the White House, Carter also rejected a proposal Waldheim brought back from his visit to Iran for a "package" coupling the hostages' release to an international inquiry into alleged crimes of deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

Waldheim will report to the United Nations Monday on his three-day trip to Iran last week. But administration officials said the United States will not ask the UN Security Council to impose economic sanctions on Iran until later in the week. "The president reiterated the position of the United States that the United Nations should begin without delay the process of implementing the UN Security Council resolutions of Dec. 31," press secretary Jody Powell said. That resolution called for the immediate release of the 50 hostages held at the U.S.

Embassy in Tehran since Nov. 4. It also directed Waldheim to go to Iran to seek See IRAN, Page 13A More on the crises Hostages are still bound but are well treated, Iranians insist. Page 2A. Israeli and Egyptian leaders to discuss Afghan crisis today.

Page 4A. Editorial on deportation. Page 14A. U.S. and China pledge closer ties to meet Soviet threats.

Page 7C. Saudis boycott Moscow Olympics. Page 6D. Should the U.S. do the same? Page 15A.

Trading in commodities futures halted for two days. Page 7D 11 uh rnoto Police grapple with one of about 65 Afghans who seized their country's embassy in Tehran Sunday to protest the Soviet incursion. The siege ended after five hours; no one was injured. Afghans pledge 'fight to finish' Lranam sweeping India vote egram that Fitzsimmons "had undergone surgery." know nothing of the nature of his Illness," Holmes said. "All I know is that he is under a doctor's Doctors discovered a spot on Fitzsimmons' lung last month and ordered exploratory surgery, Bacon reported.

During the operation, physicians found the cancer had spread throughout his abdomen, he wrote. Fitzsimmons, who succeeded the missing Jimmy Hoffa as head of the powerful union, knows of the malignancy, the paper said, adding he will undergo chemotherapy as soon as he recuperates from the surgery. TEAMSTERS locals throughout the nation were notified by telegram Friday night that Fitzsimmons has a "serious illness" which would See TEAMSTER, Page 13A From AP and UPI A radio broadcast from Afghanistan on Sunday said Moslem insurgents have suffered heavy casualties fighting Soviet troops but pledged a "fight to the finish" to force the Soviets out of the Central Asian nation. In Moscow, the official news agency Tass charged that steps taken by the United States in response to the Soviet intervention were "hostile to the interests of peace." Tass said it was hopeless for the United States to try to alter the Soviet position by curtailing ties between the two countries. In its Tass also called for a "sane, far-sighted approach" to preserve world peace and said it was "authorized" to release the statement which referred to the thinking of the "ruling circles of the Soviet Union," indicating it represented official Soviet thinking at the high-See AFGHAN, Page 13A CARTER ACTS TODAY ICDYS LIKE Tr From AP and UPI NEW DELHI Indira Gandhi's Congress Party headed toward a landslide victory in India's general elections Sunday and the ex-prime minister warned that Soviet moves in Afghanistan and U.S.

military aid for Pakistan would pose a danger for her country. "The presence of one side attracts the presence of the other side," she told reporters after early returns showed her Indira-Congress Party taking a majority of seats in Parliament after the second and final day of voting in the country of 608 million people. "If the crisis following the presence of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan escalates, it might pose a danger to India," Mrs. Gandhi said. "The danger is more so because the United States has been giving arms to Pakistan." Mrs.

Gandhi, 62, said she does not approve of any foreign interference in the region. She said this includes the Soviet move in Afghanistan as well as action by the Western powers, which she said were dabbling in the region. With 524 lower-house See INDIA, Page13A MISSING Chrysler deal goes to UAW council By LUTHER JACKSON Free Press Staff Writer How much power do you actually have to change the fortunes of Wayne County? A Very little. The only power that I have as chairman of the board would be how effectively we can bring the board of commissioners together to work in unison. That is the real thrust of power, it's not what I do individually but what we do together.

If I can set the climate and get the personalities who are working in that direction, then that is the real power. What specific plans do you have to reduce the county's budget deficit and avoid future payless paydays? A Well, no specific plans at this point, other than to see if we can sit down with the governor and see if we can work out some things that we ought to discuss with him I would like to have a meeting with the governor with regard to some of the county's problems. I'm certain that the governor assumes that he's fairly well versed on county problems but I think that there are some things that we need to discuss. Do you think the state has been unreasonable in Its dealings with Wayne County? A Yes, I would think so. One reason is because of the large population that we have to serve.

Secondly is because the county is actually an arm of the state, not the same as a city. In a city, if they don't want to pick up the garbage, they don't have to pick up the garbage. But we can't make that choice as to whether we want to carry out mandated services or not carry out mandated services. We must carry them out. Whatever we do is part of state action.

Do you perceive a significant split between Detroit and suburban commissioners? A I would like to think that it is not a significant enough split so as to prevent us from doing what we ought to do. My main job, one of my jobs, will be to work with the board individual commissioners to see if we can avoid those pretended issues. When I say pretended issues, (that's) anything that you put before you as a stumbling block which is not necessary. And pretension we won't have time for that now. Do you think the commissioners deserve the nickname of "county clowns?" A That's unfortunate and I hope that it will never be used in connection with an elected official in the future.

It may be to some extent that the media figures that that is a name that has been earned Do you have any specific plans to improve the board's image? A Yes, and those plans are being discussed with the board of commissioners. And I think that once they are fully discussed, we can talk about them in public. We are working together to try to develop plans to really show what the majority are like. This (negative) image is usually drawn from a minority. Why is there a need for county reorganization? A Basically, if you want to be frank about it, the people's minds have been so persuaded that the problems of the county arise from the fact that it needs to be reorganized, that they feel this is the major thrust of getting efficiency in county government.

An editorial is on Page 14A. Snow watch: When to call the road crews? By SALLY SMITH Free Press Staff Writer Early Sunday afternoon, Daisy Smith waited for the snow. The people at the National Weather Service at Detroit Metropolitan Airport told her it was coming in, but she didn't know exactly when. Every now and then, she looked oui her window, searching the bleak gray skies for a hint of white. For Daisy Smith, waiting for snow is no joke.

Mrs. Smith is a switchboard operator at the central maintenance office of the Wayne County Road Commission, also near the airport. On Sunday, she was responsible for calling in road crew supervisors if and when the predicted snow hit town and made life hard. It's a nerve-racking business especially By W. KIM HERON and RALPH ORR Free Press Staff Writers The UAW's 250-member Chrysler Council will meet at the Airport Hilton Tuesday to vote on a tentative renegotiated contract which grants the troubled automaker $446 million in concessions as required by federal loan guarantee legislation.

The council, made up of local union leaders from around the country, must ratify the pact before it can be voted on by the membership. Meanwhile, UAW President Doug Fraser, UAW Vice-President Marc Stepp, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Gov. Milliken are scheduled to be in Washington Monday to see President Carter sign a Chrysler Corp. rescue package. THE PACKAGE includes $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees.

Besides the $446 million in concessions required from the UAW, Chrysler's 4,200 employes in seven other unions were Illustration bv Free Press Art Director DICK MAYER when word came down that the snow might amount to four inches. FOUR INCHES! The last time it snowed that much in the Detroit area was Jan. 13, 1979. People were forced to drive at 15 miles See SNOW, Page17A Lion lover's death: Mauling or murder? inside today ANN LANDERS 2C BILLY GRAHAM 18D BRIDGE ISO BUSINESS NEWS 1-2B CLASSIFIED 8-14D COMICS 15-170 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 15P DEATH NOTICES 8D EDITORIALS 14A ENTERTAINMENT 4-5B FEATURE PAGE 7B HOROSCOPE ISP MOVIE GUIDE 18-170 NAMES FACES 18D OBITUARIES 2B OPINION ISA SPORTS 1-70 TELEVISION 6C required to sacrifice $16.5 million in contract provisions. The renegotiated contract, which was agreed to by union and company negotiators late Saturday, is being viewed as a matter of necessity by union officials.

"The agreement stinks in comparison with GM and Ford," said Joe Zappa, president of Local 212 of Detroit and chairman of the union's bargaining committee. But Zappa said he expected union members to approve it because "they're voting to save their jobs." Said Fraser: "I think they the back seat, wrapped in a sheet, was the 100-pound body of the author-naturalist. Mawson stopped at a camp, a year-old commercial venture managed by Roy Wallace, a Kenyan who was Mrs. Adamson's only constant neighbor in the preserve. Rushing to Wallace in the firelight, Mawson cried: "What shall I do? Mrs.

Adamson has been killed by a lion!" The 36-year-old Wallace says he grabbed a flashlight, threw an arm around the shoulder of Mawsou, and went to look at the body. Wallace recalled Sunday that he saw a "slight trickle of blood around the mouth" when he lifted the sheet. The sheet was not blooa stained, said Wallace, who has come i See LION, Page 17A New York Times SHABA GAME PRESERVE, Kenya Officials in the Kenya Police and Game Department expressed doubts Sunday that Joy Adamson, who told the story of raising a lion cub in "Born Free," was killed by a lion, as reported Friday. Friends say they believe she was murdered. An autopsy was performed on Mrs.

Adamson in Nairobi Saturday but the results have not been made public. Police and Mrs. Adamson's friends gave the following account of events immediately after her death: A few minutes past 8 p.m. Thursday, a green Toyota Land Cruiser rattled over the lava rock floor of this 400-square-mile game preserve in northern Kenya, driven by Pieter Mawson.a 19-year-old South African who worked for Mrs. Adamson.

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