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Free Press telephones City News Desk 222-6600 Classified Gold Ads 222-5000 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 Home Delivery 222-6500 Other Calls 222-6400 today's chuckle The trouble with putting in your two cents' worth these days is that it costsj: 20 cents to mail it. Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Friday, January 1, 1982 ti if Top State Officials Get Raises Starting Today Governor $70,000, up from $65,000. Lieutenant governor $50,000, up from $45,000. Supreme Court Justices $69,000, up from $60,500.

Legislators $31,000, up from $27,000. All also receive expense money $20,000 for the governor nnn il. lf( trr tha rhiat Inctiro' LANSING (AP) State appeals court judges get 19.2 percent pay raises while legislators' salaries rise 14.8 percent, effective today. The governor's salary goes up 7.7 percent. The State Officers Compensation Commission in 1980 froze the officials' salaries for 1981 because of the state's budget problems, but approved pay increases for top elected officials for 1982.

Conservative lawmakers tried unsuccessfully a few weeks ago to block the pay raises. i THE SALARIES, among the highest in the nation in all categories, were defended by House Speaker Bobby Crim. "I know it's always very popular for people to beat up on public officials, even if they get a $1 raise. But I think it is deserved," Crim said. Gov.

Milliken has said he'll accept his pay increase. Among the 1982 salary intreases are the following: Restaurateurs picking up part of tab for menu book The 1982 edition of the "Detroit Meet, Eat and Enjoy Menu Book" was prepared differently this year with the restaurants supplying some of the bread. For the first time, the eateries had to pay a fee to get their menus included. One restaurateur, who found the idea hard to digest, said he was asked to pay about $300 per restaurant. He has 10 eateries, and he declined.

"I don't think it's the right approach for the book," said Bruce Cameron, the owner of the Midtown Cafe in Birmingham, the Meating Place in West Bloomfield and others. Another restaurateur, Ron Crittenden of La Marmite, remembers paying only $125. He agreed to dish out the dough because the restaurants approached by the book's author were still selected for their quality. Plus, the sale price of the 1982 book will be cheaper, $4.95 compared with last year's $6.95. Author Mary Conway could not be reached for comment.

City's garbage collectors given time off New Year's Eve Detroit's garbage collectors who thought their New Year's Eve schedule was trash were given the night off, $2,000 for other Supreme Court justices, and $6,200 for lawmakers. "Supplemental salaries" go to the speaker of the state House, Senate majority leader, House and Senate minority leaders, $8,000 each, and House and Senate appropriations committee chairmen, $1,000 each. The Supreme Court salaries have a "ripple effect" throughout ttiP inrilrlflrv. where nav is neeeed to the hieh court level. Court of Appeals judges' pay jumps from $55,550 to circuit court maximum pay rises from $55,660 to ana aisinci ana probate judges' maximums jump from $53,240 to $60,720.

AP Photo after all. The City of Alive and happy Jan Smith and her four-year-old son, Scott, have a special reason for celebrating the New Year. Just over two weeks ago, a Barry County Sheriff's Department diving team pulled Scott out of the icy water of Algonquin Lake, just behind his Hastings home. Mrs. Smith tried to rescue her son, but couldn't pull him out of the eight-foot deep water.

By the time he was rescued, Scott had spent 35 minutes underwater. Although Scott has some lung problems, doctors said he suffered no permanent damage and is alive because of "dive reflex' an automatic reaction that slowed the boy's metabolism and channeled blood to his vital organs. Mrs. Smith and her husband, William', also have a six-year-old son named Mark. Detroit allowed the collectors to stop working at 6:30 p.m.

The workers had been fearful of getting shot at by crazed partying types on New Year's Duck! Here comes (bang) the new year By TOM BEVIER Free Press Staff Writer Shotguns boom, bullets whistle; Happy New Year, Detroit's a pistol. As the clock rolled toward midnight Thursday, the street-wise people of the city, including police, headed for cover, as they have on every New Year's Eve for as long as most Detroiters can recall. That was because of Detroiters quirky custom of heralding another year by firing off their collective arsenal, which, according to Police Chief William Hart, is considerable. "I kind of hide myself," said Police Officer Pat Mullins of the 5th (Jefferson) Precinct. "People think the bullets just stop somewhere, but they keep going until they hit something." And to remove some possible targets, police officials ordered all marked scout cars back to their stations for an hour beginning at 1 1:30 p.m.

Only emergency runs were excepted. HART WAS WORRIED that someone would be injured, as some have in past years, by the random fusillade. "There's no way we could stop It unless we had a policeman standing at each house," he said. "There's a gun in almost every household, 1 Eve. But their boss, Jimmy Watts, head of Detroit's Department of Public Watts V.c.i'.

V--v 7 uV I y.ytfy Works, was unsympathetic at first, saying Wednesday he had no intention of changing the schedule. After the Free Press reported the garbage collectors' concern, the city met with union officials Thursday and altered the work schedules. The city decided it was in "the best interest" of the collectors not to be rolling in and out of dark alleys on New Year's Eve. foHoivup Car insurance act illegal, court says By RICK RATLIFF Free Pret Staff Writer A Macomb County circuit judge has ruled'that Michigan's Essential Insurance Act unconstitutionally allows insurance companies to decide who is at fault in auto accidents. Circuit Judge John G.

Roskopp also ruled that the Michigan Automobile Club cannot cancel or raise auto Insurance rates for plaintiff Ida Flumignan, 38, of Roseville. The auto club canceled her policy In June after she had two accidents and received a and everybody who has a gun shoots it at least once a year on New Year's Eve." After the boom-boom welcome last year, a 21-year-old northwest Detroit man was found dead with a bullet wound in the stomach, probably from a stray bullet. Free Press Photo by IRA ROSENBERG irainc ucxei. Chief Hart Glen Williams, left, and James Aro with DAC ice sculpture. Cool career Ice work if you can get it The plug Is pulled on pay-TV decoder business The leading pirate in the two-year pay-TV decoding device fight is out of business.

The Windsor outfit, Video Gallery, on Wyandotte Street West, closed shop and its owners cannot be reached. Video Gallery fell into hot water when it started selling decoding devices that unscramble the television signals of Troy-based ON-TV, which uses Channel 20 in Southfield to transmit movies and sporting events to subscribers. Sale of those decoders in the U.S. is illegal. ON-TV got an injunction against importation of the devices into the U.S., and U.S.

Customs strictly enforced the ban. Compiled by DONNA URSCHEL In a 26-page opinion issued Wednesday, Roskopp said the year-old insurance law violates the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, which prohibits any state from depriving citizens of life, liberty or property without due process of law. "IT SEEMS to me there should be other standards other than the insurance company making decisions about who should be insured," Roskopp said Thursday. "It's hard to get along in Michigan without an automobile, so it's a pretty serious right to have that being taken away from you." But he added that he doesn't believe his ruling should affect anyone other than Flumignan.

Flumignan said she backed her car into parked cars on two occasions and got a ticket for a moving violation for a total of 1 1 points against her license three for the first accident, See RULING, Page 11A One shooter, contacted at a Detroit gun shop Thursday afternoon, said he follows the tradition because "it makes me feel good. THE CUSTOM, however, makes some people nervous. John a supervisor with the American Cab said most cab drivers don't like to be on the street at midnight on New Year's Eve. "There are too many goofy people around," he said. One of the drivers, Dean Cook, said, "It is very bad.

You don't know what's going to happen. It's good to try to get inside. I've had friends who have been hit." Some people don't have a choice. "It's like our bumper sticker says 'Firemen still make house said a senior fire chief, Andy Rushford. "We continue to go." DANIEL BOJALAD, the head of the city's Emergency Medical Service, said he was expecting the number of runs to go up.

"You can't help but be he said. "We've never had any of our people hurt, but we worry about it." He said he has lived in Detroit all his life and was himself surprised when people who moved to the city expressed surprise over all the New Year's Eve gunfire. "I thought it was something people did everywhere," he said. By PATRICIA MONTEMURRI Free Press Staff Writer There's little that doesn't drip and slide away in the world of glacial gastronomy those fancy frozen formations created as decorations and hors d'oeuvres-holders during the holidays. Like the eight reindeers and four angels crafted from ice that dripped into oblivion atop the roof of the Detroit Athletic Club three years ago, when temperatures soared and rain poured.

Athletic Club Second Chef James Aro chipped, chiseled and chainsawed that ill-fated icy creation. He recalled Its premature melting Wednesday as he helped hack out a reindeer and sleigh from 460 pounds of ice. "YOU GET USED to seeing them melting away," said Aro, the chiseler behind many such icy creations that have thawed on buffet tables around the city. "The same day we put them up on the roof, the temperatures went up and they came down with the rain." i A different fate awaited the ice creatures that Aro and Detroit Club Second Chef Glen Williams sculpted during four finger-chilling hours Thursday in the parking lot behind the Detroit Club in downtown Detroit. Williams carved out the sleigh which will keep caviar, crabmeat and lobster chilled for the Detroit Club'J annual New Year's Day brunch next to a few garbage cans and piles of ice shavings.

"I suprised myself the first time I made one of these things," Williams said. "You just sort of learn through trial and error. And after the first on you get used to seeing them drip Bay County paycheck dispute By JUDY DIEB0LT Free. Press Staff Writer BAY CITY -A Bay County Circuit Court judge briefly jailed the county's finance director and threatened to jail its chief executive this week in a dispute over whether court employes are entitled to a retroactive raise the county commission rejected twice. Judge Eugene Penzien ordered Herb Herriman, the county finance director, jailed Wednesday after Herriman refused to issue retroactive paychecks totaling $45,000 for some 38 court employes.

The judge also Issued an arrest warrant for county executive Gary Majeski, who refused to authorize the payments. At issue is whether the judge had the authority to order a retroactive pay raise for court employes without the county commission's approval. THE COMMISSION had twice rejected the raise for budgetary reasons. Majeski and Herriman contended they could not violate the will of the commission, whose authority they believed superseded the court's order. Judge Penzien disagreed.

The judge could not be reached for comment Thursday. However, Herriman said he learned that a warrant had been Issued for his arrest from a radio broadcast when he and Majeski were returning from lunch Wednesday. Herriman said he accompanied Majeski to the office of David Skinner, a local lawyer, See RAISES, Page 11 A How many shots? Pope's attack recalled WHEN HE TOLD an Italian iudee that three sound off Are you a high-heels fan? A podiatrist and footwear editor for the Journal of the American Podiatry Association says although high heels can cause health problems, women will continue wearing them because heels "may be the most potent aphrodisiac ever concocted." Are you a high-heels fan? How you voted YES, 62 percent. COMMENTS: "They're very sexy" "I'm 72, and I still love em" "Yes, but I only wear them when I hardly have to walk anywhere" "I'm short and need all the help I can get." NO, 38 percent. COMMENTS: "I'm only five-foot-one, but I like to keep my feet on the ground" "Heels practically made a cripple out of me" "God, do they hurt!" "A torture device designed by a woman hater." Sound off Is a non-scientific, reader opinion feature.

Today's percentages are based on approximately 600 calls. Tomorrow's question New Year's Eve has traditionally been a night for celebration and revelry. Did you do anything to ring in the New Year? To vote YES To vote NO Call 981-3211 Call 961-4422 shots were fired, Newton said, "the judge looked surprised and asked me to repeat it." i Newton, 48, said, "Other witnesses have said only two shots were fired, but I will maintain forever and the people I was traveling with will tell you that we all heard three shots equally; spaced: 'Pop pop Newton said his nhotoeranhs. taken "five or! By PATRICIA CHARGOT Free Press SUM Writer The Detroit journalist who was questioned in Rome this week about his pictures of a man fleeing St. Peter's Square seconds after Pope John Paul II was shot said Thursday that officials were "very Interested" In the number of shots he heard and In physical details of the man he photographed.

Lowell Newton, editorial director of WXYZ-TV, said after his return to Detroit that the man he photographed was carrying a revolver, although It can't be seen in either of his pictures. Newton described the man as "24 to 26 years of age, 1 55 to 160 pounds, with longish hair, a long-thin nose and a Mediterranean complexion." In addition, Newton, who was in Rome as a tourist when the pope was shot May 13, said he is "absolutely sure" that three shots were fired. Various witnesses have reported hearing between two and five shots. six seconds" after the pope was wounded In motorcade, show "a man running out of the" crowd at a fast pace. He wasn't sprinting, but he was jogging quickly.

As he ran toward me, thought: 'Take a "Then I saw a gun and I froze. I turned slightly away, trying to create the impression that I was not paying any attention to him. But I don't think he saw me. He had a look of terror on his face. I don't think he saw anyone.

He seemed See NEWTON, Page Free Press Photo by DAVID C. TURNLEY Lowell Newton: He heard three shots..