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16, 1988 Lottery extra: Monday's number, 047, was drawn three times before. droit Jfee 3Pt ess 3 die, power knocked out in violent storms Two killed in Forester Township One killed north of Stockbridge County; v.v I'-l Porr 11 BY ROBERT MUSIAL Free Press Staff Writer The severe thunderstorms that pounded Michigan late Sunday left three people dead, damaged homes and buildings and knocked out power in several communities, authorities said on Monday. Two of the victims were killed when high winds blew part of a tree onto their tent at a campground near Lake Huron in the Thumb. The campers, Dawn Withers, 26, and Richard Wells, 33, both of Camla-chie, Ontario, died shortly after the winds toppled part of a tree in Sanilac County Park No. 1 near Port Sanilac.

Also killed by the storm was Rex Bates, 73, of Ingham County, who died when winds uprooted a large oak tree that fell onto the travel trailer in which he was sleeping on his farm, seven miles north of Stockbridge. Police said Bates' wife, who was uninjured, left the trailer to go into the couple's home moments before the tree crushed the front of the trailer. "It would have gotten them both if she hadn't left," Ingham County Sheriff Lt. Al Janutolo said on Monday. Police speculated the couple had been sleeping in the air-conditioned trailer to escape the hot, muggy weather that blanketed much of the state over the weekend with 90-plus tem peratures.

Nationwide, medical authorities blamed the hot weather for at least 51 deaths over the weekend and Monday 28 in the Chicago area, 13 in St. Louis, seven in Texas, two in Boston and one in Raleigh, N.C., where a high school football player died of heat stroke after he collapsed while running practice laps in full pads and gear. Michigan's thunderstorms, which produced spectacular lightning displays from the Indiana border to Lansing, also spawned at least one tornado, which touched down briefly in Ionia County, leveling two barns and killing 15 head of cattle. A funnel cloud also was reported early Monday at Williamston in Ingham County, said Sgt. David Doolittle of the county sheriff's department.

Doolittle said thunderstorms damaged several buildings throughout the county, including the East Lansing Amtrak station, which had its roof ripped off and hurled 500 feet. In addition, the winds were blamed for traffic delays on the Mackinac Bridge Sunday, including one three-car crash and an incident in which a pickup truck had its camper top blown off. Consumers Power Co. said 79,600 of its customers lost power during the storms. After winds of up to 60 m.p.h.

hit the metro Detroit area shortly after midnight, Detroit Edison Co. reported 53,000 power outages in its southeast Michigan service area. "For some areas, it'll probably be up to a day or so before they're back," said Edison spokesman Dan Vecchioni. "The mugginess will start up again Tuesday and by Wednesday, we'll be miserable again, with highs in the mid-90s," said Bill Deedler a National Weather Service meteorologist. But a cool front from northern Canada should arrive on Thursday, bringing highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid-50s, he said.

Wire service reports contributed to this report. Sanllac rz port Huron NX1 "'-TnTl j. Port i pi Ingham Huron ifx r-J-County Detroit Free Press DNA offers jobs; legal threat looms i 1S M. GARY KANADJIANDetroit Free Press A bib that belonged to Krista Thorell is JOA HOTLINE For delivery questions, call circulation at 222-6500. Toll-free circulation line: 1-800-633-3968.

JOA hotline for non-delivery questions: 222-7777. Toll-free JOA hotline: pinned to a heart. Krista died with her parents, Laura and Larry Thorell, in the crash of Flight 255. Pilot group tries to clear by William J. Mitchell Free Press Staff Writer The Detroit Newspaper Agency Monday offered jobs to some managers at the Free Press and Detroit News and bargained with two unions, trying to get its staff and its labor contracts resolved by Friday, when the agency begins joint publication of the papers.

But contract talks soured with the Mailers Union. Joel Wilson, the president of Local 2040, said shortly before 1 a.m. this morning that "I think we're heading for a strike. I'm serious." Meanwhile, opponents of the JOA discussed a last-minute legal challenge with a Washington, D.C., group founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader. State Sen.

John Kelly, D-Detroit, said he and other opponents have sought assistance from the Public Citizen Litigation Group. Attorneys for the group declined comment, but Kelly said opponents calling themselves the Michigan Citizens for an Independent Press might ask a federal court to block the JOA for 20 days pending review of last week's approval by Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Kelly said the group comprised about 40 people "from all walks of life academics, publishers, journalists, but mostly subscribers." He would not name any members. Oakland Press Publisher Bruce Mc-Intyre said Monday he had talked to a California legal expert on JO As regarding a possible challenge, but would not See LABOR TALKS, Page 15A 255's crew Damaged cockpit tape called key evidence BY DUANE NORIYUKI Free Press Staff Writer Although the official inquiry is long concluded, a member of the Air Line Pilots Association said Police chief eliminates 'black' in Toledo neighborhood policy the group is pursuing possible evidence to clear the crew of Northwest Flight 255 from blame for the crash that killed 156 people a year ago today at Detroit Metro Airport. "The investigation as far as we're concerned ism LfY Ky is not over by any stretch of the imagination, said Steven Cramer, a member of the ALPA committee still probing the crash and a 20-year lent incidents involving black youngsters.

About 17 percent of Toledo's 340,000 residents are black. The law association sued Friday on behalf of Walter Wade a black teenager who was followed and then stopped by police in front of his house Wednesday. Wade, 19, was questioned but not charged with any offense, the suit said. "This policy has given police carte blanche to do what they wanted in the Old West End. We are not only talking about black teenagers being stopped, but also some black adults, too," Tolliver said.

The suit said the policy violates civil rights law and the Constitution's guarantee of freedom of association and protection against unlawful search and seizure. Felker defended the policy as necessary to stop violence in the by Mitch Weiss Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio The police chief on Monday dropped the word "black" from a directive ordering officers to stop and question black teenagers at random to reduce crime in a racially mixed neighborhood. Chief Martin Felker said in a statement that the policy, which is under attack by a black lawyers association in federal court, "unfortunately has been perceived as racially motivated." "To correct this misconception, I have modified this directive," he said. Lafayette Tolliver of the Thurgood Marshall Law Association said the group will continue with its suit to prevent police from carrying out the policy, announced July 8. The policy applies to the Old West End neighborhood.

The policy followed complaints by residents who had reported three vio friend of Flight 255 Capt. John Maus, who was among the dead. "I would say we will be to the bottom line of this thing probably within three to six months." The National Transportation Safety Board ruled in May that the crash was caused by the failure of crew members Maus and First Officer David Dodds to make sure the MD-80 jet's flaps and slats were set for takeoff. A contributing factor was loss of power to a system designed to warn the crew that the flaps and slats were not extended, the NTSB determined. But Cramer, 41, of Birmingham, said there could be conflicting evidence.

"I'm not going at this just because John was a personal friend of mine," Cramer said. "I'm going See FLIGHT 255, Page 14A uT.V'MTi GARY KANADJIANDetroit Free Press GARY KANADJIANDetroit Free Press Linda Biondo helps place 156 hearts that spell out the numbers "255" at the site where the Northwest Airlines jet crashed a year ago. The hearts, which Belleville Moose Lodge No. 934 paid for, are in memory of the victims of the tragedy and will be part of a public vigil at 8:30 tonight. Mayor, collectors fume over trash in Hamtramck Candidate's mom a lively campaigner Euterpe Dukakis meets senior citizens VT" city employes, said the pileup was caused by layoffs and budget cuts that have cut the collection staff in half to 44 since 1976.

The pickups this weekend are "the mayor's way of trying to make DPW employes look bad," he said. "The council and mayor never asked for the union's permission. They took it on their own to stick it down the DPW employes' throats again." He said service would get worse with the 16 layoffs on Friday. "And it's not going to be the workers' fault." But Kozaren said the impact of the layoffs will be minimized by diverting workers from other city departments to pick up trash. Volunteers Saturday and Sunday picked up 48 tons of refuse in alleys within a 14-block area of the city garbage that was supposed to have been picked up Aug.

4 and 5. Even so, some trash wasn't touched. On Monday, rubbish stuck out of the trash can in the alley next to Jan Sobczyk's house; a few other bags lay at the can's base. "Where did they pick up? We haven't seen them at all," she said. "Do you know how dried grass smells a few days? Pretty nasty." BY KERY MURAKAMI Free Press Staff Writer The streets of Hamtramck smell a little sweeter today.

But that, city workers say, will shift like the wind. They say Mayor Robert Kozaren, who last weekend helped pick up some of the trash that has been piling up for two weeks, is slinging it at them. And layoffs of 16 more trash collectors on Friday will keep garbage in people's alleys instead of the dumps. Kozaren's administrative aide said the city's trash collectors are to blame for the stagnant refuse. They have worked sluggishly because of the heat, if they have come to work at all, Robert Cwiertniewicz said Monday.

The union representing the workers said that's rubbish. Kozaren, two City Council members and about 10 volunteers manned garbage trucks last weekend and cruised the southeastern corner of the city, stirring up those who are paid to pick up the trash. "I sure didn't like to do it. But I got tired of getting 100 complaints a day about something I'm paying to get done," Kozaren said. "It was a dirty job but someone had to do it." Gary Orzechowski, a city tree-trimmer and non-office steward of AFSCME Local 660, which represents mr Jt it 5 91 UAW retirees in Warren.

Dukakis began her morning of appearances at the Senior Olympics in Southfield and then met senior citizens at the St. Clair Shores Senior Activities Center. From there, she traveled to the UAW's Region 1 hall in Warren, to the Curious Child Day Care Center in Clinton Township, to a neighborhood meeting in Harrison Township and to a roundtable discussion sponsored by Madison Heights Seniors. "We need someone who has had experience in governing a state, in bringing forces together to achieve results to the state," said Dukakis, who emigrated from Greece to the United States when she was nine years old. The most important issue of the campaign? "It seems to me it's putting us back in believing there is integrity in government.

That this is a government not of men but one that is laws," she See DUKAKIS, Page 15A BY GEORGEA KOVANIS Free Press Staff Writer Euterpe Dukakis likes the idea of having her son in the White House even though she can't get used to seeing him ride around in a limousine. "We've always lived with small cars small houses. We're very simple people," she said, explaining that she laughs when she sees her son Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis sitting in an expensive Cadillac, surrounded by a motorcade. "Michael can't come to my house without a whole line of cars," she said with a chuckle, adding that the Cadillac is used for security. Euterpe Dukakis, who turns 85 next month, spent Monday, the first day of a two-day campaign stop in Oakland and Macomb counties, urging senior citizens to vote for her son.

"I like meeting people. I do have the energy, the good health for it," she said in an interview after a luncheon with 1 CRAIG PORTERDetrolt Free Press Jackie Peters, 7, of Clinton Township, watches Euterpe Dukakis, mother of the Democratic presidential candidate, sign an autograph at the Curious Child Day Care Center. -v?.