Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 3

Free Press telephones City News Desk 222-6600 Classified Gold 222-5000 Insurance Dept." 222-6470 For Home Delivery 222-6500 All Other Calls 222-6400 etout Mue today's chuckle A teacher told a boy in class that he would never grow up to be president, but with his absentee record he might make it to the Senate. Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Friday, November 27, 1981 ipi How will everyone get to the Super Bowl? No violins playing for ailing auto industry Transit team has it all planned out A story on Detroit's auto industry struck an unsympathetic chord in the hearts of many Business Week readers. The maga zine's Nov. 9 cover story was "Why Detroit Still Can't Get Going," and it elicited an avalanche of letters from readers who felt compelled to express Flint Bishop, Berz-Macomb, Livingston County, Willow Run, Detroit City and Detroit Metro. VanderVeen said most commercial flights will arrive at Metro with little or no change in normal schedules.

Other craft will land at outlying smaller fields matched geographically with the hotels where the passengers will be staying. "For instance, if someone has a charter package with accommodations at the Plaza (Westin) downtown, we'd try to land them at City Airport," VanderVeen said. "If they're staying in Troy, we'd try to put them at Oak-iand-Pontiac." KYLE KEIFLING, tower chief at the Pontiac airport, said the mass firing of striking air traffic controllers and recent FAA directives to reduce See SUPER, Page 13A By JOYCE WALKER-TYSON Free Press Staff Writer All roads will lead to Pontiac Jan. 24, when an expected 70,000 football fans migrate from all over the country to witness Super Bowl XVI at the Silverdome. Among the myriad logistical problems inherent in hosting the Super Bowl will be the relatively basic matter of transportation getting 70,000 out-of-towners and another 1 0,000 Detroiters from thousands of points 'A' to point 'B' (the Silverdome).

"We're expecting about 1,000 aircraft just for the game," said J. David VanderVeen, Oakland County aviation manager at Oakland Pontiac Airport and chairman of the airport committee for the Super Bowl's Michigan Host Committee. "We figure the planes will be coming in at their opinions on why the auto industry is routes and traffic patterns. The center will not be able to plan many patterns until after the competing Super Bowl teams have been selected. "Until they know which teams will be playing, they won't know which direction the craft will be coming in from," VanderVeen said.

"But we've been meeting with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), and we have impressed upon them the magnitude of the traffic that day. They're working with us on developing a system that will maximize convenience and safety and minimize delays." Locally, airports participating in special planning for the game include Oakland-Pontiac, various times during the week preceding the game, but the real crunch will come right after the game on Sunday." VanderVeen said about 60 percent of the Super Bowl visitors will leave immediately after the game, with the remaining 40 percent departing the next morning. "One fortunate aspect is that Sunday night is generally a slow period air-traffic-wise," VanderVeen said. "The problem will not be with local control, but with Cleveland Center coordination." THE CONTROL CENTER in Cleveland directs air traffic into and out of Detroit, assigning declining. The magazine devoted two ex tra pages to run the letters in the Nov.

30 issue. Some of the gripes: The auto Indus try refuses to acknowledge change; it wastes money on overfat advertising bud gets; it priced itself out of the market, and it has rotten consumer relations. A simple, sane solution to riddle of Rubik's Cube Four folks from the Detroit area have Shirs lead Westland to scratch created a remedy for Rubik's Cube mad ness Cubix Cube Fix. In the vein of mankind's pet rock, Cubix Cube Fix is a package of multi-colored paper squares with stick-em backs. So the frustrated cubist can easily solve the puzzle by sticking the colors on the squares.

The school play foursome Bob and Karen Braun, Alden Halpert and David Sternfeld are asking By RICK RATLIFF Free Press Staff Writer Administrators at a West land high school have canceled $2 for their invention. Will Bourbon Street North spice up Pontiac? One-House Legislature Will Buck Long Odds By HUGH McDIARMID Free Press Politics Writer Three state representatives, hoping to capitalize on a tax- and government-weary electorate, floated a proposal earlier this week calling for a unicameral or single-house Michigan Legislature. They say a 72-member, unicameral Legislature, replacing the present 148-member, bicameral House and Senate legislative plans for students to perform the 1959 musical comedy "Little Mary Sunshine" in January If you're tooling through Pontiac and because some parents and teachers say it contains racial slurs against American In dians. Faculty and students at John Glenn High School had stumble across "Bourbon Street North," you didn't drive too far south or drink too much. Pontiac has caught an early strain of Super Bowl fever and renamed Saginaw Street, its principal thoroughfare, to help celebrate the Big Event.

Pontiac plans to add spice to the street, in the style of the famed strip in New Orleans. White House mail worked a month on the musi cal. It spoofs the 1936 Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald movie "Indian Love Call" and is about a forest ranger who helps a woman seek her fugitive brother in Colorado. didn't fly this time 't (l IWlfJ v-' Dennis O'Neill, deputy su Staffers in Bill Brodhead's office were chuckling this week at the correspon perintendent of Wayne-West-land Community Schools, said dence they received from the White he and the school principal de House. The president, like congressmen system, would cut the cost of state government and streamline the legislative process.

They may be correct. But heavy odds say they will never get the chance to prove it. Proposals for only one house have bloomed In many states, but have seldom taken root. Research by Michigan's Legisla cided Friday to cancel thf production. O'Neill said members a naws cnxlysis of an Indian education committee for the school system re and senators, gets free postage.

But Reagan's letter to the Democratic Michigan congressman was stamped by the post office: "Return for Postage." An error in viewed the script and found it offensive. tive Service Bureau indicates that between 30 and 40 states toyed formally with the idea one or more times between 1900 and 1970, but only Nebraska adopted it. That was in 1934, after a referendum campaign by U.S. Sen. George W.

Norris, the state's long-time Republican populist. 1 THEIR COMPLAINTS in handling? Or maybe a postal worker's hidden message on the president's cut in services? Brodhead's people figure it was the former, but had a good time thinking about the latter. cluded: In the first scene, an Indian In Michigan, a campaign assumes a rigid "cigar-store Indian" pose. similar to Nebraska's failed in 1971. It involved a proposal by Youth, 15, slain Frequent references are Free Press Photo by RICHARD LEE made to Indians as "savages" then-state Rep.

Joseph P. Swallow, R-Alpena, (now a circuit court judge) and had the and "warlike." An Indian character, Yellow David Freeman and others enjoy the dinner at the Harbor Light Center. Turkey time Feather, is described in the play as "dishonest," "crafty," active support of the Michigan Jaycees. But it was abandoned when a petition drive fell short of the required number of "a murderer" and "a cheat." gang rivalry "THE SCHOOL district had Thanksgiving Day, the Detroit way Now come three Michigan put on this play in 1974 at Wayne Memorial High," By Free Press Staff folloivup Rancher plays Santa; he'll give zoo 2 ponies As it turns out, the Detroit Zoo won't be waiting for Santa Claus to deliver two Shetland ponies. A horse ranch near West Branch is donating the small, shaggy animals, just days after the zoo composed its Christmas list.

The zoo was wishing for the animals because its pony, Stormy, is old and ill and not expected to perform again in the zoo theater during the summers. The ranch is owned by Matthew Fox. His son, Bill Fox, a Chevrolet dealer in Rochester, said zoo officials will go to the ranch next week and select the two ponies they want. Compiled by DONNA URSCHEL state representatives Claude Trim, D-Davisburg, Perry Bui-lard, D-Ann Arbor, and Kirby Holmes, R-Utica once again O'Neill said, and he saw it then. "At that time I was not aware Most of them were men and, despite the of the stereotype." cheer at Thanksgiving dinners elsewhere, they ate silently.

Many sat next to strangers because everyone was welcome at the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center, near downtown Detroit, For the past three years, he proposing a one-house Legislature for Michigan. By SANPY McCLURE Free Press Staff Writer A week after his body was found, bound and shot to death in the playground at Mark Twain Elementary School on the lower west side, police asked Jonathan Wayne Rhodes' mother to go to the Wayne County Morgue to identify her son's body. It was the day before Thanksgiving, and Rhodes' mother, Goldana Campbell, said, the school system has had grants for Indian education from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Wei- SUCCESS would depend on which was serving turkey dinners Thursday to the needy and homeless. voters agreeing to amend the state Constitution in order to There were greetings between the Salvation are, including a $75,000 grant this year.

O'Neill estimated As dinner was served to about 180 the Salvation Army could seat at one time, about twice as many waited patiently in the adjoining chapel for the call, "Next row." An estimated 1,500 persons would be served between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. There were families sprinkled among the ranks of men wearing everything from lumber jackets to suits and ties. One of the couples enjoying the holiday meaf recently moved to Detroit from Memphis, Tenn. The husband said, "I'm looking for any kind of work I can find." His wife added, "As soon as we get back on our feet, we'll go back" to Memphis.

ON THE FAR west side of Detroit, Beverly Wade was having a different sort of Thanksgiving. On Wednesday, Miss Wade, 20 and an em-See TURKEY, Page 8A Army volunteers and those they served as they sat on folding chairs at picnic tables under a' mural of Jesus praying. elect four state legislators from each of Michigan's 18 congressional districts in time to convene a one-house Legislature in that from five to 10 percent of the 10,000 students in the district have some Indian But much of the goodwill went unspoken and January 1987. was expressed through eye contact. was round at Medline Indus sound ogLQ First, the trio must persuade tries Inc.

on THANKSGIVING DAY this year in Detroit' was summed up on one motel marquee: "Every Beaufait where their colleagues to place the amendment on next year's fall ballot. Failing that, they say, they would follow Nebraska one has something to be thankful for." That was "Part of the thrust of that project is to do whatever we, can to reduce Indian stereotypes," he said, and the play "was offensive to some of the See PLAY, Page 13A Feeling thankful? sne worKS as a seamstress making hospital garments for people as true for those eating at the Harbor Light Center as it was for the pastry shop in Greek-town that got a lot of customers after the parade. See LEGISLATURE, Page 13A Americans face Thanksgiving at a time of widespread economic hardship. Are you able to feel thankful this 111' ymmmmr jr Church passes the plate on TV whose work is Rhodes trying to save lives. The mother of nine children, including Jonathan, Mrs.

Campbell knew her slain son ran with a west side gang, never backed down from a fight and had no trouble finding one on his own. She knew he sometimes stayed away from home without letting her know where he'd be or when he'd be back. RHODES, who went by the name Jon Wayne, was 15 years and three months old the night his hands were tied and he was executed in the dark schoolyard playground on Gleason at Deacon. It took detectives, who at first believed the body belonged to a man in his 20s, a week to identify him. After confirming the identity Wednesday, police from the Special Crimes Section, also known as the Gang Squad, are helping homicide detectives How you voted YES, 73 percent.

COMMENTS: "Times could always be harder" "I'm out of work, but thankful to still have my health and family" "I'm 89 and just thankful to be alive" "We're counting our blessings and praying for those less fortunate." NO, 27 percent. COMMENTS: "No, thanks to Reagan" "Thankful? GM was nice enough to hand me my layoff notice yesterday." Sound off is a non-scientific, reader opinion feature. Today's percentages are based on approximately 825 calls. Tomorrow's question A former Detroit Lions player turned evangelist minister says winning is an important part of Christianity. (See Page 1A).

Do you agree? miles on a week night or some other time when they can get the message in their own living rooms?" Mr. Quick asked. "The question we asked ourselves this year was how best to reach our people simultaneously with the information they needed to make the decision of how much to give to their church." In past years, he said, "we'd tried the neighborhood meeting approach, a lot of mailings. And they worked to a degree "This year we had budgeted $1,200 for fund raising. We could have printed a lot of material that might or might not have been read.

But in this TV age, I thought, 'Why not give the program a WITH $1,200 the cost of an hour of prime-time on Channel 62 and borrowed video equipment, Mr. Quick and several of his parishioners put together and narrated the hour-long program. It begins with an aerial view of Renais- 1" See CHURCH, Page 13A Prime-time plea nets $404,902 "It's a Sunday that I will not forget in my ministry," he said. "Never have I heard of any pledge effort on the part of any congregation to underwrite a budget as our people have done." The minister credits the TV program for the congregation's generosity. "We meant the program to be watched by our own people, though I'm sure many other people saw it, too," he said.

"We weren't on the airwaves asking the public for money, or anything like that." The minister said he and church officers decided to televise the program rather than show it at the church because all 2,000 members are never present on a single Sunday. They advertised it in parish publications and local newspapers. "WJiY BRING people out miles and By HARRY COOK Free Press Religion Writer A Detroit church has taken a leaf out of the electronic evangelists' book by using television to raise funds to support its ministry. According to the National Council of Churches in New York, it Is apparently the first time any congregation has used prime-time commercial television to reach its members. The Metropolitan Church's minister, the Rev.

William Quick, said the hour-long documentary, aired in prime time Nov. 7 on Channel 62, generated $404,902 in pledges from nearly 1,000 persons attending services the day after it aired. He said that amounts to more than 80 percent of the 1982 budget of the congregation, which includes more than 500 families in five counties. MR. QUICK said 95 percent of the people attending services Sunday, Nov.

8, said thsy had watched the program the, night before. The Rev. William Quick: "Why bring people out miles and miles on a week night or some other time when they can get the mes-sar in their own living ro'ms?" i vote YES To vote NO ganL, See Page 13A Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422.