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DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 1 9 A TTTTTjTWT- 1 Crossroads East tries! 4 to serve self-esteem i If. Patent office, U.S. judge stall energy machine li i i 14 CITY LIFE, from Page 3A casual minute with folks who come in from the neighborhood with problems far greater than an empty stomach. The food is there to give nourishment; the counseling is to help give life. The neighborhood is east of the proposed Chrysler project.

It is an area devastated by the HUD housing scandal of the 1970s, the lousy economy in the early '80s and crime today. works. Lawrence Bell, associate director of the museum, said that machine's inventor, David Jones, concedes it is a fake. Since 1971, more 33,000 people have come to Crossroads East for help, half of them in the last five years. Crossroads serves folks like Rosa Jackson, who come looking for help, a place to live and a job.

people who have been bitten by thoseiv, ways. Crossroads' job placement director, Dorothea Beuttenmuller, a nun who used to teach school, has a pile classified ad sections from newspapers on her desk. She will help a person find work and help that person again when, she says, most employers fire the help )2 just shy of 90 days' worth of ment, a point when an employer start paying additional benefits. A vicious circle, she says. She tries to help mothers on ADC get a job that.

pays at least $5.50 an hour so it's worth, the woman's while to get off the welfare system. That's how much takes an hour to help a person afford the amenities ADC pays for. Most the folks face three hurdles getting work, she says: "Lack of lack of transportation and tion." Jim McLaren says Crossroads isj akin to "a finger in the dike." He has been at this so long, the frustration caring gives him a sardonic tone when he speaks of all those folks out there who "don't give a damn." How sad it is, he says, that state agencies will pay $172 a month to a in landlord for a single person's welfare-paid rent. And the landlord operating a building not worth such rent but charge ing it anyway is if not criminal ethically rotten. "People will move'ii where they shouldn't simply because (they're desperate," he says.

I Crossroads East, where volunteers and a small paid staff try to hundreds of people a week live, could -use your help, too: 14641 E. Detroit 48215. Call 822-1660, 9 a.m.-'' noon and p.m. weekdays. Father McLaren Rosa Jackson BILLY BOWLESDelroll Free Press Joe Newman in his workshop in Lucedale, Miss.

Newman says his "energy machine" will solve forever the world's energy problems and replace everything from home furnaces to automobile engines. is 31. Her sons are 10 and 7. A couple months she heard a dope dealer offer her boys $10 to direct customers to his den. A year ago, a burglar beat her up and stole what little she had.

She was hospitalized three months. She rolls up her left sleeve to show you the scar of her desperation, where she used a razor to try to end her life. She cannot find steady work; she is blind in one eye. She lives in an emergency shelter. THE AIM of Crossroads is to go beyond that empty stomach to the empty wallet, to find jobs for people, to help train them to find jobs themselves.

And to listen, said Father McLaren, to hear about the lives of the people seeking help, to try to give direction. It is a program that understands the ways of this world and talks straight to MACHINE, from Page 1A a U.S. patent for his "energy machine" that he said will solve forever the world's energy problems and replace everything from home furnaces to automobile engines. He already has patented the device in Spain, South Africa and India. Members of Congress and California millionaires are arrayed on Newman's side.

The patent office, National Bureau of Standards and a federal judge stand against him. "WHAT I'VE done," said Joseph Westley Newman, 50, "is create a mechanical means of converting mass into energy on a 100 percent conversion process without any pollution to the environment or human race." He said his machine he has built six of them so far captures the energy from particles moving at the speed of light in the conductor of a magnet. It is not a perpetual motion device, he said. But it is so efficient, he said, "you could hook such a device to your home and run it for a hundred years and it would be difficult to weigh a change in the mass of that material." Last week, before 2,000 people in the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Bl-loxi, Newman demonstrated his invention under the hood of a fancy red sports car. Using the amount of electrical current that powers a transistor radio, he ran the car "at walking speed" for two hours.

When he called off the demonstration, Newman said the car could have continued circling the interior of the coliseum indefinitely without noticeable wear on the 1.5-volt transistor battery that provided electrical current to the engine. About 5 m.p.h. is top speed for the car, but it could be brought up to highway speed and mass produced, Newman said. FOR CENTURIES, inventors have pursued the myth of perpetual motion. i Some have appeared for a time to succeed.

At the Boston Museum of Science, a bicvcle wheel has been Yet no one has solved the mystery. Jones, a Briton, has been quoted as saying, "Scientists are very gullible." In Newman's case, the question is which scientists are gullible: those who believe in his machine or those who don't? Roger Hastings, a physicist with Unisys Corp. In St. Paul, said the problem is that Newman's invention is based on a theory of thermodynamics that is so revolutionary and complicated that "it probably is beyond any competent scientist to (test)in less than a year or two of competent measurement." Hastings testified in U.S. District Court in favor of granting a patent for the energy machine.

SO DID AN electrical engineer, William Schuyler appointed by the judge as special master to make a recommendation to the court. Schuyler, a former patent office commissioner, said evidence is overwhelming that the device puts out more energy than it gets from the batteries that power it. But the judge, Thomas Jackson, ignored the master's findings and ruled against Newman after receiving a report from the National Bureau of Standards. Newman has vowed he will take his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, he is taking his fight to the people, holding demonstrations in such places as the coliseum in Biloxi and the New Orleans Superdome. Eleven congressmen have introduced bills to grant Newman a "pioneering patent" and let the invention stand or fall in the competition of the marketplace. A group of California investors believe in Newman enough to put up $10 million last year to back his invention. Among the backers is Dan Benvenuti, whose family owns the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association. AT A NEWS conference announcing his support for Newman's invention, Benvenuti said: "There will be no force on this earth that is going to stop it.

I will stake all I've got on this man, because I believe in him." Milton Everett, a mechanical engineer with the Mississippi Bureau of Geology, said he read about Newman's invention years ago with skepticism. "I thought (Newman) was a fraud or a con man," Everett said. Everett went to see the device, however, out of curiosity and has examined it numerous times over the last four years. At Biloxi last week, where he attended Newman's demonstration of his transistor-powered automobile, Everett appeared on the CBS Evening News touting Newman's energy machine as "probably the most significant discovery in the history of man." Yet the National Bureau of Standards, a non-regulatory agency of the federal government, tested the machine and pronounced it far less efficient than a standard electric motor. He conceded, however, that it "is not an easy device to run a test on." Patent office officials decline to discuss the invention while Newman's lawsuit against them is pending.

The energy machine is not Newman's first invention. He holds the U.S. patent on nine inventions, including plastic-covered weights for barbells, a device that keeps rain off a car's windshield at drive-in movies, and a water see-saw that catapults one rider over the other's head. Newman said he has made his living solely from his inventions since 1962. An accounting and economics major who quit the University of Alabama in his junior year, Newman taught himself physics, chemistry, astronomy, electrical engineering and other disciplines from books.

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MT. CLEMENS, Ml 48044 (313) 286-9100 I (313)263-4900 Uriir-iiKt writ1 -it i li second-guess any of our measure I ments. A fi' save 30 ON GOLD I Evangelist hits goal of -ST million $8 TULSA. Okla. (AP) TV evan vj eelist Oral Roberts, facing what he hi calls a deadline from God to raise $8 1 million by March 31 or die, said he Dlanned to fast and pray for the re maining money, but that a Florida man has donated the final $1.3 million.

Jerrv Collins, who owns two grey hound racing tracks, signed a personal check made out to Roberts earlv Satur day at his of ice at the Sanford-Orlando Kennel Club, said publicist Phil Denis spinning non-stop for 13 months. The museum offers 1 ,000 to anyone, scientists included, who can explain how it Pat Robertson shuns tag as TV evangelist ROBERTSON, from Page 1A the LordPeople That Love) television ministry and would leave its "Jim and Tammy" show. Robertson gained national recognition on the 700 Club, a religiously oriented television program seen by millions of viewers each week and on which he said God performed miracles in answer to his prayers. But national surveys have shown that voters tend to hold negative views about television evangelists and healers as political candidates, and for the past year he has been describing himself as a businessman, journalist, lawyer, educator anything but a television evangelist. He resigned as host of the 700 Club last summer, remaining as a commentator on the program.

His deputy press secretary, Ben Waldman, who often introduces Robertson for speeches, tells audiences that Robertson has never been a television evangelist. IN RESPONSE to reporters' questions about Bakker's troubles, Robertson said, "I'm surprised. I had no knowledge of it. concerned with commercial television mysel-f really had nothing to do with it. I've been running for president, so I haven't been watching too closely." Asked what effect Bakker's problems might have on the television evangelists, Robertson said, "I don't know what it is going to do with anybody else.

I don't think it will make any difference." Robertson said he believes Bakker will be forgiven. "We are all forgiven as sinners," he said. There will always be people in all professions who make mistakes, Rob- HUGH GRANNUMDetroit Free Press "I think the Lord is cleaning house a little Pal Robertson "He saw a story in the Orlando Sentine this morning out of Tulsa saying Roberts was $1.3 million short of his goal and he was going to retreat to a prayer tower and fast until he raised the money, Denis said. He was touched bv it. He gave me one of his personal checks and said to make it out for $1.3 million.

"I don't think religion enters into this. It's the education thing. Roberts has been at the center of controversy since he said on his nation' al TV program Jan. 4 that God told him his life would end at the close of March ertson said, but "I think it is incumbent on all of us, especially me, to live a life of absolute integrity and rectitude, both personally and in public. In terms of the presidency, I think politicians should be truthful, and I think they should tell the people what is happening." Robertson said he expects the 700 Club audience to grow as a result of Bakker's downfall because "we emphasize integrity and quality." About five minutes into the news conference at the Ukrainian Community Center, Waldman stopped the questioning, and despite protests by reporters, Robertson's staff led him away.

Later he spoke at a luncheon of conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, telling them that sanctity of family and religion demands chastity before marriage and fidelity if the money for medical missionary scholarships was not raised by then. Collins, of Sarasota, has given money in the past for educational causes. Several years ago, he bought the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus and donated it to Florida State University. Recently he helped New College, an alternative school in Sarasota, pay for a $1 million new library.

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