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31 METRO Big Board Gain 8th in a Row See Page 6, Section Ten Cents ON GUARD FOR 139 YEARS Vol. 140 No. 267 Tuesday, January 26, 1971 and omen Guilty anson In All 7 Tate Case Slay Action Line solves problems, 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. Please include your nsme, address and telephone number. Jury Could Sentence 4 To Death Women Calm; Manson Shouts ill -tS'V AP.Vrir- -v.

FfAl 7ifl i) h- )S- tP I was horrified by the Santa Barbara oil spill disaster which destroyed so much wildlife. Is it too late to oppose Alaska's proposed oil pipeline? Mrs. G. Detroit. No.

Write Boyd Rasmussen, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. Hearings will be held Feb. 16-17 in Washington and Feb. 24-25 in Anchorage.

The proposed 800-mile pipeline will cost seven oil companies an estimated $2 billion. Some Alaskans feel that the pipeline would bolster their sagging economy, but conservationists point to pipeline breaks, oil spills, pollution and other possible harmful effect on the environment. Do they have horoscope books for cats? I'd like to get one for my cat. Lorl Fraser. Book billed as "Stars' eye view of the pet who owns you" is winging its way from St.

Paul, Minn. Cat Horoscope Book by Henry Cole is a gift from Ac tion Line. Sample readings: Aries cat is "the hippie of his kind," and Scorpios are easily flattered. But they'll stay in line because of an "innate fear LOS ANGELES (in Charles Manson and three women members of his hippie-style clan were convicted Monday of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the savage 1 a i ng of actress Sharon Tate and six others. Manson was the only defendant to speak out.

After the jury was polled he shouted to the judge: "We were not allowed to put on a defense. You won't outlive that, old man." The women sat quietly. The jury of seven men and five women had deliberated 42 hours and 40 minutes since receiving the case Jan. 15, after a seven-month trial. The same jury at a separate trial will fix the penalty, death or life imprisonment.

The judge set Thursday for the penalty trial to begin. The prosecutor said he will ask for the death penalty. The defendants, who frequently disrupted the trial with courtroom outbursts, went out quietly after the verdict, led by bailiffs. They are: Manson, 36, accused of ordering the killings in order to of becoming a slave to their passions." Libra cats are fin-icky, and Sagittarians are roamers and dreamers. Owners are warned to stick "I belong to" tags on their collars.

Book costs 85 cents including mailing from Llewellyn Publications, Box 3383, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. We've collected nearly Betty Crocker coupons toward a kidney machine for our local hospital. We're still short.

We just learned that General Mills is stopping the program May 31. Can't we have more time? Mrs. E. jess riik (I mmmmmm AP Photoi Charles Manson Leslie Van Houten Susan Atkins Patricia Krenwinkel After the verdict: The three girls and Manson are escorted from the courtroom in Los Angeles CONDITIONS 'ILLEGAL SHOCKING' Cadillac. Will seven more months help? General Mills agreed to extend cut-off date to Dec.

31. Company halted kidney machine offer because publicity backfired people complained that outfit Clean Up Jail or Close It, Suit Asks he would take oower. was using a tragic affliction to promote its products, adouc zu machines have been purchased through the plan, and 500 groups will aim for the new deadline. Community organizations still can buy non-Iifesaving hospital equipment with Betty Crocker coupons. Write Peggy Gener.at-MiUs Jnc, .400 Second South, Minneapolis, Minn.

55440 for details. Last year I bought a $70 tape recorder called "Mail Call" by Smith Corona. One part was for us to keep, and the other we sent our son in Vietnam so we could exchange tapes. I can't find additional tapes for it anywhere. Can Action Line? Mrs.

C. F. Hamburg. Try SCM 8550 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, 111.

60631. First one's on the house. Company stopped handling your tape recorder last year, when Japanese firm put out cheaper version. They say change in supplier slowed tape shipments to dealers. Three, six and 10-minute reels sell for $2, $2.25 and $2.50 each.

Address requests care of Letter Pack Department. in Ana Arbor; NQnnan Richardson, charged with, murdering a Detroit police officer; and Michael Harris, Carolyn Traylor, and Nora Ware, all charged with lesser offenses. In a statement issued by their attorneys, the inmates said, "We live, 60 minutes of every hour, 24 hours a day, in hell." "We are engaged in peaceful struggle in the language of the law the same law that put us in this hell-hole because we couldn't pay the ransom of a bail bond system that decides our freedom or imprisonment only on how much money we have." The statement by the six inmates also pointed out that over 90 percent of the jail's 450 prisoners are poor, and that 85 percent are black. Defendants named in the suit include the Wayne County Board of Commissioners; Robert E. Fitz-Patrick, the board chairman; Wayne County Sheriff William Lucas; Frank Wilkerson, the jail administrator; two members of the Wayne County Board of Auditors, and Gus Harrison, di- Turn to Page 6A, Column 5 punitive and unlawful summary discipline, and the unlawful restrictions on visitation, communication, association and privacy." THE SUIT SEEKS a court order requiring that conditions be fixed, or that the jail be closed.

The suit accuses jail personnel, "including high-ranking officers," of being "overt racists or sadists, or both." Substantial numbers of persons "who would never plead guilty if they were free on bond or imprisoned under tolerable, constitutional conditions" plead guilty just to escape the horrors of the jail, the suit says. The Jail conditions and treatment violate the prisoners' constitutional rights, the suit contends, and it points out the fact that 90 percent of the prisoners are awaiting trial and are, therefore, "presumed innocent until proven guilty." Although the suit was filed on behalf of all the inmates in the jail, six inmates are named as individual complainants: James Johnson, charged with shooting to death three fellow workers at a Chrysler factory; Lawrence Robert (Pun) Pla-mondon, charged with bombing a federal office BYJACK KNIGHT Frt PrtH Stiff Writer The Wayne County Jail would either be cleaned up or closed down under a court suit filed Monday. The 33-page suit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, charged that conditions at the jail were "illegal, unconstitutional, shocking, and dehumanizing." Conditions at the jail and the county officials who run it were both attacked in the suit, filed by a number of Detroit attorneys and the Michigan Legal Services Assistance Program on behalf of all the jail's inmates and six inmates listed by name. Charging that putting someone In the jail constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment," the suit says that the jail is in flagrant violation of Michigan housing and health codes because of overcrowding, toilet disrepair, fecal matter and urine of cell floors, heating disrepair, Inadequate ventilation, and poor wiring. The suit lists detailed allegations about: "The filthy, sardine-packed cells, the grossly Inadequate medical care, the total lack of exercise facilities, the contaminated food, the arbitrary, Susan Atkins, 22, called "Vampira" by the prosecutor becausea witness testified that she tasted Miss Tate's blood after killing her.

Patricia Krenwinkel, 23, who according to testimony complained that her hand hurt after so much stabbing. Leslie Van Houten, 21, described as having repeatedly stabbed a dead victim and enjoying it. THE JURY'S verdicts were read individually on each of the 27 counts. Manson, Miss Atkins and Miss Krenwinkel each were charged with one count of conspiracy and seven counts of murder. Miss Van Turn to Page 2A, Column 1 Action 4 Line Japan is supposed to have fewer coronary deaths than any other country.

What do they eat that makes them less susceptible to heart trouble? M. Detroit. It's what they DON'T eat fatty foods. Japanese fill up on fish, vegetables and grains, especially brown rice (more nourishing than white). Michigan Heart Association recommends limiting fat intake to 25 percent of your diet, offers free meal planning pamphlet, "The Way to a Man's Heart," to help you reach that goal.

Write for it to 13100 Puritan, Detroit 48227, or call 292-5500. While diet's important, other causes of heart health or failure include genetic, metabolic and emotional conditions. Can Action Line find me some circus posters? I'd like to use them to decorate the hall for our Jaycees Auxiliary district meeting Mrs. M. Trenton.

Pick up 40 of 'em in the Shrine Circus lobby, 434 Temple. Jaycees Auxiliary is for wives of Jaycees. Organization raises funds for charitable purposes. Shrine Circus will be in town through Feb. 14.

For ticket info, call 368-0610. A Lot Happened on Way To Roche-Woodcock Talk (MM) Ob Dear Readers Action Line editors consider every request you send us. We publish the most interesting and helpful answers. We regret that we cannot answer, or even acknowledge, individual requests. BP 4 Last Nov.

5, during the height of the General Motors Corp. -strike, Leonard Woodcock, the UAW president, and James M. Roche, GM chairman, held a hush-hush, little-noticed meeting. In this, the third of a series on how the UAW and GM reached a settlement, the significance and details of that session are described. BY RALPH ORR Frw PrtH Labor Wrltw On Thursday, Oct.

29. the 45th day of the 10-week UAW strike against General Motors the two sides agreed for the first time to undertake serious bargaining. The next day, J. Curtis Counts, director of the Federal Mediation and' Conciliation Service, slipped into Detroit to confer with the top negotiators. He told newsmen he was enthusiastic about the decision to For the next 12 days, they faced each other for varying periods across the 35-foot bargaining table in a gold-draped, fifth-floor room in the General Motors Building, separated by five feet of polished walnut and surrounded by 41 empty chairs.

"There was a lot less smoke," said Bramblett. This streamlined approach was nothing new, according to Bluestbne. "On our side, it was a unanimous decision, on the basis that no decisions would be made without the approval of the full (12-man national bargaining) committee," he said. "There was full, frank, open discussion. It appeared that the corporation people were more willing to express themselves in all circumstances.

It was a good idea for this set of negotiations." There was no fear that the Turn to Page 8A, Column 1 AP Photo iinnTI (0JH THE QUESTION The football season officially ended Sunday. Are you glad or sad? intensify the bargaining. Pres-i Nixon, he said, was "very much concerned" about the impact of the strike on the faltering economy. Partially because of Counts' meetings with both sides, serious bargaining did not begin until the next day. THE UAW principals were President Leonard Woodcock; his top aide, Ernest J.

Moran, and the UAW's GM Department director, Irving Blue-stone. Representing GM were Vice-President Earl Bram-blctt, George B. Norris, labor-relations director, and Victor M. Zink, personnel research director. The Sascn boys get together after the marijuana raid.

From left are Donald, Joseph and Michael. Boy Sniffs, Looks, Tattles On Pot-Smoking Sitter HOW YOU VOTED GLAD, M.7 percent. COMMENTS: "They're milking a good thing dry" "I never was so happy in all my life" "No games would be one too many" "Now I suppose we'll have reruns all summer" "I love football, but I must admit it was getting monotonous" "Now if the Red Wings' season would only end" "It sure will be nice to have a father again." SAD, 45.3 percent. COMMENTS: "I'm sad, but my wife Is glad" "We had TV parties every week" "The whole family will miss it" "What else is there to watch on Sunday afternoons?" "Sunday is one day 1 don't have to wonder where my husband's at" "It's like losing an old friend" "Consider the alternative -talking to my wife." Donald made an excuse to go outside, scooted down the street to a store, and called police. His baby-sitter and her friends were sitting on the edge of the tub in his home smoking what he thought was marijuana, he told a desk sergeant.

Narcotics officers came within minutes and he turned his snatched evidence over to them. The sitter and three boys were arrested on a variety of narcotics laws violations. Mrs. Madeline Snscn, a divorcee, returned home from a movie shortly before midnight to find a city social worker tending her flock. She was "very proud" of Donald because ho had done the "right tiling," she said.

The 16-year-old baby-sitter was "the last girl I would have expected to do something like that," she said. "She comes from a very strict family." SPRINGFIELD, Mass. wi After seeing marijuana on television and smelling a burning "joint" at a State Police county fair demonstration, 10-year-old Donald Sascn had an idea what the stuff was. And, he was certain, the baby-sitter and her three male companions weren't smoking plain old cigarets in the bathroom Saturday night. So Donald decided to do his civic duty.

He gave brother Joseph, 9, a dollar he had earned shoveling snow and told him to snatch the cellophane bag sitting or, the bathroom shelf. Joseph had been warned by the sitter and her teen-aged friends about coming downstairs, so he sub-Jot the job to brother Michael, 5. Mike snatched the bag and turned it over to Donald, the eldest of six Sascn children. 2B 5A 1-4D s-m 3B 4-7C 1-3C Obituaries Opinion Sports Stock Markets Television Want Ads Women's Pages Truman's Health Gelling Better KANSAS CITY-(AP)-Harry Truman's physician said Monday that the condition of the former president had improved from fair to good. The midafternoon bulletin released by the hospital quoted the attending physician, Dr.

Wallace Graham, as saying that Truman's colitis, inflammation of the large intestine, has improved. Amusements 4B Ann Landers 3C Astrology 5D Billy Graham 8D Bridge 5D Business News S-7B Comics S-7D Crossword Puzzle 5D Death Notices 4C Earl Wilson 7A Editorials 4A Feature Page 7A Movie Guide I-7D Namei and Facet 8D TOMORROW'S QUESTION A Cambridge professor said that many people use drugs as a sex substitute. Do you agree? HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6300 Or Your Local Free Press Number- To Vote AGREE Call 961-3211 To Vote DISAGREE Call 961-4422.