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a Haw Detroit Jftcc Vvtts Thursday, April 3, 190G PUBLIC SAFETY REPORT 2A SPORTS 7A Call our bureau: 523-2510 WW VKfi.Jt- to' g-v-tc'-J DATELINE LIVONIA Cops under fire for tactics used during protests By JOEL THURTELL Free Press Staff Writer ft li few Showdown on high-rise The City Council will vote Wednesday on the controversial rezoning ordinance that, if passed, would allow construction of a high-rise hotel and office buildings on 104 acres between Seven and Eight Mile roads, east of 1-275. Southfield-based Victor International Corp. has proposed building a $300 million hotel and corporate office center and is seeking a zoning change that would allow up to 12-story buildings. A resolution proposed by council member Robert Bennett to limit the height of the office buildings to no more than eight stories was defeated 4-3 last week. But city planner John Nagy said the height of the buildings still would be negotiable during the site plan approval process, which would begin around May 1, if the ordinance is passed.

ANN ARBOR i 11 as i -m Democrats on the Ann Arbor City Council have launched an effort to ban some surveillance and enforcement techniques police have used during recent political protests. To Ann Arbor Police Chief William Corbett, a city cop who last month tailed a small group of political protesters across the University of Michigan campus was just covering his assigned beat: keeping tabs on potential violent behavior by student demonstrators. BUT U-M UNDERGRADUATE and political protester Ingrid Kock says police violated her right to privacy by videotaping her at a peaceful protest against military contractors recruiting students on U-M's North Campus, then following her back to the main campus. Kock said she tried twice to elude her police tail by entering campus buildings. Each time, officers were waiting outside when she emerged.

When she stepped onto an administration building elevator, the two police officers were right with her. See SURVEILLANCE, Page 8A 1 ir Free Press Photo bv AL KAMUDA He awaits your visit A bust of the deified Roman Emperor Vespasian, dating from the Flavian dynasty (69-96 AD), turns a quizzical gaze on visitors to the Francis W. Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Mediaeval Archaeology in Ann Arbor. Take your own visit to the museum on Page 3A. From council to courtroom Developer Richard Berger didn't wait long when the City Council on March 24 rejected his plan for a $50 million, 400-room hotel conference center in downtown Ann Arbor.

Early the next morning, Berger's attorneys filed a lawsuit asking Washtenaw County Circuit Court to order the council to approve his project. Not only that, but Berger asked the court to order the city to allow him to build a 385-space parking lot underneath the proposed hotel. The city has twice rejected a proposed zoning change that would allow underground lots. But Berger said he has contended all along that, under present zoning law, he has the right to build the underground parking lot. LIVONIA HUNGARIAN CHOIR TO PERFORM i rti Caution: Roadwork ahead, and plenty of it Lawyer challenges Bennett A 27-year-old lawyer, Thomas McCarthy, has an nt nounced he will oppose incumbent John Bennett for the Democratic Party nomination for state representative from the 34th District.

The district includes all of Redford Township and more than 20,000 people who live in eastern Livo- --SIX i1 By JOHN CASTINE Free Press Staff Writer Jnia. McCarthy is a Redford ship Democratic Club board mM ber. has served on the executive McCarthy jj0ar(i of the 17th District Democratic Party organization, and is a former aideto Rep. Dennis Hertel, D-Harper Woods. "A lot of people express surprise that I'm running against an incumbent, but I think I can do a better job," said McCarthy.

"He's been up there a long time. I think I can give more energy to the job." Bennett, a former Redford Township treasurer, has held the seat for 22 years. The primary will be in August. YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP Where's porno shopkeeper? District Court 14-B officials are waiting for porno shopkeeper Karen Christy to show up for her arraignment on six charges of illegally operating an adult bookstore. Free Press Photo bv AL KAMUDA The first harbinger of warm weather is not only the appearance of robins in your backyard.

Backhoes, orange-draped workers and "Road Construction Ahead" signs along the roads also coincide with the arrival of spring. And 1 986 will be a busy one for road crews in western Wayne and Washtenaw counties, which have, respectively, about $15 million and $4 million budgeted for road construction and repair not including state road projects. "We're probably talking about 12 to 13 miles of road projects (in Wayne County) this year," said Wilbourne Kelley, director of engineering for the Wayne County Office of Public Services. "We let contracts for quite a few projects (in 1985) but this year will be one of our biggest in terms of internal paving programs." Washtenaw projects had not been final as of early this week, but Mike Anderson, Road Commission deputy manager, estimates that nearly a quarter of the department's $16.1 million budget will be spent on road construction. "A lot of things are pending because state and federal funds are not all secured yet," Anderson said.

"Startups? I hope by the middle of May." Kantus, a Hungarian choir, will perform Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Hungarian Reformed Church, 990 1 Allen Road, Allen Park a triumph for the Rev. Dezso Abraham (above), bishop of Hungarian Reformed Churches in America and pastor in Allen Park, who fled Hungary in 1947. Tickets, at $10 and $25 (reserved seats), sold at church today and Friday, 9-noon Sunday. Details: Muncie King, 382-1001.

i By BRIAN MURPHY Free Press Special Writer Christy was supposed to be arraigned on the charges last week, but failed to appear, said court magistrate Charles Pope. She is accused of misdemeanor offenses for each day her Unique Creations adult bookstore on Michigan Avenue was open last week, Pope said, and bench warrants for her arrest may be issued if she does not aDDear bv earlv Ypsi voters have easier ballot than Ann Arbor proposal) will pass," said Leigh Chizak, Ann Arbor's assistant city administrator for engineering services. "We need it badly." Proposal if adopted by voters, would direct the city to borrow $3 million to pay for pothole patchwork and for resurfacing local streets, said City Clerk Winifred Northcross. The cost of the three-year construction work would be repaid through general obligation tax bonds, she said. Proposal A calls for local measures to express Ann Arbor's opposition to American military See ELECTIONS, Page 8A Passage of a proposal on Monday's Ann Arbor ballot could lead to increased taxes to pay for road improvements, while the final tally in the City Council races could shift the majority to the Republicans.

Meanwhile, Ypsilanti city officials describe their City Council election as quiet and say the Ypsi ballot is free of proposals. "I don't have the foggiest idea if (the road HEADING THE LIST of major jobs See ROADWORK, Page 8A NEWSMAKEREDWARD HINES FAST FACTS Happy face on housing A park and a plan unristy next week. Meanwhile, the store still was open Tuesday, according to a man who answered the phone at Unique Creations. The man, who refused to give his name, said that township officials check the store daily. "They hauled me off to jail Friday," he said.

Ypsilanti Township officials say the store violates their zoning law, which forbids the sale of adult materials within 1,500 feet of a residential area, said Pope. Christy could not be reached for comment. LIVONIA Petition drive steps up Mayor Edward McNamara said he will join 500 volunteers seeking signatures this weekend in an aggressive petition drive to abolish the Wayne County drain commissioner's office held by Charles Young-blood. McNamara, a Democratic candidate for Wayne County executive, has committed volunteers from his campaign organization to blanket 30 shopping centers in 25 Wayne County communities. The effort is a continuation of the drive begun by current County Executive William Lucas that gathered 56,000 signatures.

McNamara believes the additional 34,000 signatures needed to place the question on the November ballot can be obtained in two weekends. WAYNEWASHTENAW COUNTIES i i.n.i minimum amnmn. I 'I Iliuwpw-w ililllllUMipPWBJWIIProwlWM mi 1 Jljjy -sty 1 monplace that it's hard to imagine a time when they didn't exist. It was Hines, for example, who thought of painting a stripe down the middle of the pavement to help motorists keep their bearings. We call it the center line today, but Hines had the idea in 1911, when he had one painted down the middle of Seven Mile Road.

Hines aiso organized the first snow removal program (in 1912); supervised the first highway paving (Woodward between Six and Seven Mile, in 1911), and supervised construction of the country's first highway bike path, from Belle Isle to Mt. Clemens. THESE MIGHT BE the achievements of a brilliant highway engineer, except for one thing: Edward Hines was not an engineer. He was a printer so in love with his calling that at age 12 he turned down a chance to be a congressional page. He wanted to finish school and open a print shop.

At 19, he owned Speaker Hines Printing Co. But it was his passion for roads and parks, not printing, that would make him famous. joei Thurtell When the spring thaw covers Hines Drive with acres of water from the swollen Rouge River, Wayne County's 17-mile Middle Rouge Parkway looks like a highway engineer's fantasy turned very, very sour. That, says county parks and recreation chief Eric Reickel, is a bum rap. Hines Park flooding makes good newspaper photos, but it only means the park is doing what its creator, Edward N.

Hines, intended it to do. HINES, WHO SERVED as chairman of the Wayne County Road Commission and county parks superintendent, wanted a park and road system that would let city people get into the country in their newfangled cars. But he also wanted to make sure the land along the Middle Rouge River's flood plain would never be used for housing or other development. That way, when the Rouge jumps its banks, says Reickel, no houses get flooded only swing sets, picnic tables and Hines Drive. Although Edward Hines is remembered mainly for the parkway that bears his name, his contributions to early highway.ngineering are so com The number of residential building permits issued in Southeast Michigan rose 72 percent from 1984 to 1985, with Farmington Hills (2,425 permits) at the top of the list.

Canton led our area with 910. Ann Arbor issued 513, Detroit 217, Livonia 527, North-ville Township 413, Pittsfield Township 352, Ypsilanti Township 345 and Van Buren Township 273. Here are county figures: Single- Two- Multl- Over family family family 1984 Wayne 1,412 20 1,754 84.5 Washtenaw Name: Edward N. Hines. Born: Jan.

13, 1870, In St. Louis. Died: June 6, 1938. Hobble: Bicycling, Background: Chairman, Wayne County Road Commission, 1906-1938; chairman, Wayne County Parks Board, and parks superintendent, 1923-1938; president, director and organizer of Detroit Automobile Club, forerunner of Automobile Association of America; president and director, Detroit Wheelmen, a bicycling organization. Like: Bicycles, peonies, Welsh rarebit, Rudyard Kipling.

Dislike: Highway billboards, beets, and radio advertising. (Historical information on Edward Hines courtesy Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library High-speed rail endorsed An ad hoc committee studying the potential for a high-speed rail system between Detroit and Chicago endorsed the idea in the first draft of its report, said Rep. Jim Kosteva, D-Canton Township. "Our final report will be out within a month," said Kosteva. "Part of the next step is to continue major work that needs to be done with Indiana and Illinois and get unified agreements with those states." The committee believes the system should be built and run with prteate money, and estimates construction will cost $1.1 billion, Kosteva said.

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