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f 16A (C) Thursday, July 28, 1977 editorial opinion wm we learn a lesson from crash? Not likely To six families: The Observer, on behalf of the greater Plymouth-<strong>Canton</strong> community, is writing this letter to the families of Douglas McGregor. Bradley Wilson. William Cook. Brian Stout. Steve Radgens. Erik Corey and Don Gulau. We. too. were in shock Saturday morning as word spread that six young men were killed m an automobile accident in Dexter Township. The news spread like a shock wave because, tn a small town, the boys were known by many friends and acquaintances. Every time the subject came up in a group of people, someone was bound to exclaim: "Mv God. I knew one of those bovs In fact, my son had just seen him Friday afternoon." or words to that effect Everyone's life touches hundreds of others. That's why the death of six voung men was a tragedv the entire community shared. Most of us touched their lives one way or another. THE TRAGEDY, of course, was that lives were lost in such a senseless manner It was more tragic because all six were voung. each looking towards a future that knew no bounds. There is some solace, however, in that they already had packed a lot of life into their 16 to 19 years, j^nd they were living like many other young people during those few hours before death. They were with friends, having a good time on a Friday evening. Hundreds of other teenagers were doing the same thing that evening—having fun with friends looking back, there is a natural inclination to want to blame someone for the tragedy, and one of the easiest targets seems to be the bar the boys apparently visited jfist minutes before the accident. The fact that all but one were under the legal drinking age of 18 suggests the tavern owner may share liability for the deaths. By law. a tavern owner catf be liable for serving minors or for allowing a toxication what happen under investi Its to drink themselves to indon't know yet the final details of at the bar. The matter is still ft ion We do know the boys were there in search'of a good time with friends, and if one or more drank too much, they did so voluntarily. with knowledge of the risks they were taking. That well may be the real tragedv of Saturdav morning—that all of us do things we know are filled with danger Alcohol is a drug misused by many, young and old. And many who have had a fair amount to drink are deceived into thinking they are sober enough to drive The warning "If you drink, don't drive" hasn't penetrated. TTie truth is that for every person who drinks and ends up in a fatal auto accident, there are many more of us who do the same senseless thing and somehow survive. Many more may be killed in a similar fashion, but the message does not sink in The real tragedy is we might not learn from their deaths Although we are too human to learn from Saturday's tragedy, because we are human we do share some of the grief and tears six families have shed this week Not all of us have sent flowers. but we want each family to know we share their grief. It could have been us or a member of our family in that car. It was a human error, and we are all prone to the same mistakes Thus, it is human grief we share todav Living good; distractions few Despite the images of Thanksgiving and Christmas as great times for families, late summerspecifically August—must be ranked as the best season for the most basic unit of society. Few civic activities are there to distract family members. Little League and recreation baseball have wound down. Clubs are nearly dormant. Summer school is a whisper. The only politics are a few city primaries tnat provide more faint amusement than municipal stimuli. In Michigan, the eating is the best of the year. Peaches, plums, a multitude of vegetables and especially sweet corn are in season, and buying them at farmers' stands provides a break in our shopping patterns. The kids are more often along on these trips than they are on those trips to the supermarket. We don't think about it at the time, but these late summer suppers are the best and least pressured meals of the year for the family. The Rood case Such activities as there are tend to be civic festivals or. if you're vacationing out-state, the county fpirs. The family goes to them as a group Commercially, it's a good season because back to-school shopping has started. But what makes late summer shopping better is that there's no exploitation of Pilgrims* pumpkins, Santa. George Washington, St. Valentine and bunnies like there is in other seasons. The family's buying is practical and gimmick-free. There's a pleasant lull in late summer. Soon it will be interrupted by the jarring bump of school (or teachers' strike threats), clubs, bowling leagues, new situations and friends, new business projects. The richness of late summer won't be remembered as any great event. Yet it will have done more to restore us human beings and family units than any other season of the year. Rally for editor political In a previous column. I wondered aloud about the public's strange reaction in Escanaba to the firing of Daily Press Editor Dave Rood. Some 300 inhabitants of that breezy upper peninsula city had rallied in protest of Rood's firing by John McGoff, publisher of the Panax newspapers. The public, I have found over the years, just doesn't rally in support of Rood's kind of good journalism People might rally in protest of a story that shows their pet project in an unfavorable light—even if the story is true. They may rally to get an editor to print Little League results. But it's just unlike the public to rally around an editor who gets fired for refusing to print what he perceives to be a trash piece about President Carter from the publishing company's national bureau Something there had the stench of a billion alewives washed onto the beaches of Lake Michigan. IT TURNS OUT, there is an explanation. Politics. It seems that a self-appointed committee on the newspaper industry in Escanaba issued a manifesto aimed at curing what was wrong with the Daily Press and many newspapers everywhere. It called itself the Committee on Responsible Journalism, or some such name. I have to work from memory because my wife used my only copy of the manifesto, picked up on our recent vacation, to wrap the remains of a spectacular smallmouth bass that consumed one minnow too many The committee thought Rood should be reinstated. It thought McGoff ought to get out of newspaper management. It thought McGoff ought to dispose of his property. It has as much cnance of accomplishing those ends as it has of persuading Henry Fora II to reinstate Bunky Knudsen ana peddling his Ford stock, but at this point the politics gets sticky. THE COMMITTEE also advocated a legislated end to chain ownership of newspapers. Intb the fray came the name of tne Hon. Morris Udall, one-time presidential aspirant from Arizona. Why Udall, when the U.P. already has a A Division of Suburbah Communications Corporation Philip H. Power Chairman Henry M. Hogan, Jr. Fmkknt I P»jbkth* fiKvtiv* Vkl Prmkitni ^ I CW Efcvtm Oftkf jfei—. • ' — Tim Richard hard-working and popular congressman named Philip Ruppe 7 Well, Rep. Udall has ^ bill floating around to end what he calls "chain store journalism." He also has a crusade on the subject, and the Dave Rood case provided an excellent Calvary on which those ideologues could strut and preach. (It may be no accident, incidentally, that the story of the Panax firing was delivered to a paper of the political persuasion of the New York Times; certainly, the Times wasn't particularly on the lookout for good yarns about Michigan's upper peninsula.) Anyhow, the political doctrine surfacing in the U P. seems to be that "chain store journalism'' is odious, particularly when practiced by a rich right-winger. Freedom of the press is OK except when certain chain publishers seek to liven their properties by trash stories at the expense of Mr. Carter. I have a notion that the exotic economic doctrines of the anti-chain theories won't stand a constitutional test. Freedom of the press has to apply to everyone—to the McGoffs, to the Hustler, to the Woodsteins, to the Howard Kohns. If Panax wants to divest itself of the services of a superior man like Dave Rood, well, it's a free country. Meanwhile, I have heard of no effort by the ideologues to scrape up a few million bucks and buy out the Escanaba Daily Press. McGoff has been known to sell as well as buy up newspapers. Buying the Daily Press would be plaving by the rules of the game, but, instead, the self-appointed committee seeks to impose its brand of responsible journalism through politics, by an act of Congress, and by exploiting the popularity of a good man like Dave Rood. <strong>Canton</strong> €>taijcr Craig Piechura Editor 461 S Mam Street Plymouth. Ml. 48170 (313)459-2700 John Reddy, General Mgr. Arthur Longer, Advertising Director Fred J. Wright, Circulation Mgr. •CXVTVv v T . r * ''*. * • ~ \ ^ 1 *• \ %. I T ' V ' V^V-. • ^ •VH » - f r r - 7 FORECAST: "COOLER WITH G«ADUAL » CLEARING- A healthier Detroit means healthier climate for all Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the Detroit riot—surely the most traumatic episode in the history of the core city and its suburbs. Before the rage and frustration, the burning and looting had petered out. 43 lay dead. 342 were injured, 5,000 were homeless, 7,000 jailed and $50 million in property damage reported. It was the worst riot in American history, and it shattered the self-confidence of the nation's fifth largest city. It also tore at the bonds of interdependence that linked it to the suburbs. For what followed were a well-intentioned but only somewhat effective effort at short-run recon struction, the continued deterioration of the city, the school busing crisis, and the conviction on the part of many suburbanites that the last thing thev wanted was anything to do with Detroit TEN YEARS LATER, however, there are signs that the core city is beginning to come back from the brink of collapse. Crime is on the decline; the murder rate which brought the city the reputation as the murder capital of the nation is down 28 per cent from a year ago. In part, this is caused by two successive years of prosperity in the automobile industry. People are working, and although the unemplovment rate in Detroit is now 9.7 per cent, that's down from 17.4 per cent last year The police department, previously nearly all white and a major source of anger in the black community, is now becoming integrated. Instead of being looked on as "they." the cops are starting to be called "us." Economic development is beginning to pick up. not jupt at the popular Ren Cen. but also throughout the city. There are 44 major building projects currently under way in the citv. worth $443 million. Ob5
W ^ - • w , ~ -r."« >'» ^ * -TVi-* * *r c % %-. « -~ •• -»: w *- ? t ^ T v-V^- Readers'forum 4refl reot P r ( , P^ed 'Open meetings' are helpful, informative Kditor As one citizen, fortunate to be a resident of the City of Plymouth. 1 wish to express mv thanks for the opportunity to take part in two public meet ings recently held at city hall commission chambers Everv participant at these meet ings the speakers and the audience must have felt the swelling of pride at the quality of questions asked and the forthright answers given The first of these meetings was a hearing on House Joint Resolution sponsored bv the House of Representatives Taxation Committee Our own Rep Rov Smith deserves much credit for his understanding and sensitivity to the critical problems of pub lie education in Michigan as well as tax relief for senior citizens Rep. Tom Brown our neighbor from Westland is another member of the committee who presented clear ind honest answers on the subject of meeting >ur education needs equitably on the state level Resolution "C" must be a priority topic for study and action bv every concerned voter Representative Smith's idea of giving the best education to everyone and then tax everyone on the ability to earn, must be worth studying The second meeting, which was of tremendous interest, dealt with Plymouth's commission candidates For the quality of that event the I-eague of Women Voters deserve the highest commendation Plymouth citizens have more than a just cause to be proud The caliber of those neighbors who solicit our vote and want to serve us is indeed outstanding May Plvmouth continue to be the beacon of integrity in city government Vote on Aug 2 and show the world that you do care for the quality of life in Plvmouth. PAUL NASTOFF Plvmouth U-M okays mall project University of Michigan-Dearborn has received authorization from the university's board of regents to proceed with preparation of preliminaryplans and cost estimates for the U of M l) University Mall project. The board appointed Sigmund Blum and Associates as project architect \ sketch concept of the propsed mall which will provide U of M-D's student body with a general activity center ws first presented for information at the May 1977 regents meeting The university mall will be one of three buildings comprising a new core FIRST MEDICAL SERVICES CORP. 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(opp. Plum Hollow Golf Course- S. of 9 Mile Ample Parking in Rear—355-5224 of the campus The proposed library and learning resource center and the general classroom and laboratory building are the other two One part of the mall will be a selfliquidating and self-supporting area of approximately 33.000 gross square feet housing food services a bookstore. game room and student service space A second part of the building will be designed as a general us/ space of approximately 50.000 gpWss square feet This area will be converted to student activities space after temporarily serving as class room and office space M*dicar« Blu« CroM — Medicaid —Major Credit Cardi Accepted Thursday, July 28, 1977 Encephalitis prevention urged By MICHAEL MATUSZEWSKI Wayne County Board of Health is out to lead the way in developing a plan to protect against an epidemic of St. l,ouis Encephalitis (SLE). That disease killed four people in Michigan in 1975. In addition, there were 90 other cases of SLE reported in the state in 1975 , 36 of those in Wayne County There were few outbreaks in 1976. WAYNE COUNTY COMMISSION ER Edgar L. Harris said. "We need joint community planning and the cooperation of neighboring counties because any outbreak would more than likely not be confined to just Wayne County." Because of the strange cyclical nature of the disease, it is usually too late to kill mosquitoes or attempt to marshall enough people or funds to control them "We are trying to convince our communities and nearby counties that there is a definite need," said Leito Durley, a spokesman for the Wayne board of commissioners "We are trying to involve all local communities within Wayne County and we're trying to encourage adjacent counties to cooperate." he added Representatives of both the Wayne and Oakland County Environmental Health divisions agree that southeastern Michigan is ill-prepared to head off the kind of outbreaks which occured in 1975 Glen Brown of the Wayne County- Environmental Health Division said the contingency plan "would come down to an early warning system." He said the plan would define "who would need to take what kind of action." SLE IS CAUSED by a virus transmitted from mosquitoes t0 wi ld birds and sometimes from birds to humans Human infections usually occur in metropolitan areas because of house sparrows and pigeons in relatively close proximity to humans. Blood donors are sought There is an urgent need for individuals to serve as blood program volunteers and "open heart surgery" callers on Thursdays and Fridays at the new Red Cross Bloomfield Donor Center. 2388 Franklin. Bloomfield Township "Volunteers perform vital services in Red Cross blood collection centers A decline in volunteer participation poses a serious threat to the potential of the Bloomfield Center." said Dr. A. William Shafer, director of the Southeastern Michigan Blood Center Volunteers also help Red Cross nurses at the center, where they register donors, take temperatures. label and number blood bags and serve refreshments For more information about becoming a volunteer. call Reggie Dinser at the Bloomfield Donor Center, at 334-3575 \ A bird surveillance program will therefore be a focal point of the future contingency plan However, Brown speculated, "The mosquitoes are here and have been here for many years. We are beginning to think it (the virus) comes from migrating birds The mosquito bites the bird and the virus develops in the mosquito. Occasionally, a mosquito will bite a human " He added that it was important to note that one mosquito variety (culexpipens) is the major suspected earner. Brown said that luckily it was a variety which does not usually bite humans AERIAL SPRAYING is being looked upon only as a last resort Wayne County Commissioner Royce Smith said, "We do not plan to go and immediately start spraying mosquitoes We hope that our contingency plan, which includes more bird monitoring, will indicate that we won't have to spray at all." Harris added. "What we are saying is that if we do find evidence that we should spray, the communities ought to be prepared for it when the time comes." Brown called chemical spraying a last ditch effort He said the chemicals would have serious side effects to other species "The ecological system is very sensitive. It is not proper to get into spraying to control mosquito biting," he added Instead it should be employed only in "selective control " Dick Parker,a sanitarian for the Oakland County Environmental Health Division, said that county would cooperate in developing a contingency plan for southeastern Michigan "Oakland County is in the same boat as everyone else. No one in the state is equipped to do that (massive aerial spraying)." Parker said that spraying was the only effective measure. Levis 1 Jeans Sale! $-* 88 NOW MAN'S WORLD Reg. $17.00 DISTINCTIVE APPAREL * GKANDLAND (Fenkell oi Grand IXiver) 635-1424 • LIVONIA (7 Mile at Formmgion Rd ) 4 76 0060 • NORTHLAND (LOT E) 569-5885 REPEAT OF A SELL-OUT! 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