European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday june 26, 1977 quits Job in protest Over nazi after quilling her $so,000-a-year Job As anchorwoman on Detroit s wbk to Beverly Payne prepares to clean out her desk. She resigned in protest Over the station s conducting a Telephone interview with Frank Colum head of the nazi movement in America. I May have washed my career Down the Drain but i have my integrity and my dignity she said. Up photo considered for Fri Job Mich sheriff defends freebies at Las vegas Detroit Impi Wayne county Sher ii William Lucas one of five finalists for he Post of Fri director said Friday he did nothing legally or morally wrong in twice accepting free air travel and hotel rooms from Las vegas junket organizers. Lucas one of the highest ranking Blacklaw officers in the country told a an Geles times reporter earlier last week that he had been questioned about the gambling junkets by Fri agents checking his Back ground in connection with president car Ter s selection process for the fill leadership Post in Washington. White House press Secretary Jody Powell said. I Don t when asked whether he thought Lucas admission to accepting the favors would affect his chances of becoming Fri director. The times also quoted Lucas As saying hat he and his family used a Detroit Busi Nessman s vacation Home in i puerto Hico and that he look an expense paid trip to California from a vice president of motown records. Lucas one of Only two finalists who re Vived unanimous approval from Carter s Kab screening committee said Friday he is closed the junkets in the interest of Landor. The position i m seeking is one of the highest offices in the country and one that requires the highest he said. The position is too big to be Coy or to conceal. I be got to be As candid As i can. I Don t see what i did wrong. I m not going to hide anything these matters Are not legally or morally wrong " in his interview with the times. Lucas a former new York City policeman and Fri agent said All the incidents took place while he was sheriff of Michigan s largest county. The newspaper said Lucas himself brought up the Las vegas trips when asked if he had Ever taken favors from anyone and did not refuse to answer any questions in a lengthy interview. In retrospect i see nothing whatsoever he told the times. I Don t person ally feel that it is a moral question that i m getting something for nothing and that it obligates me to someone he conceded however that in Hind sight the interpretation Othre might put on his acts could be Lucas said Fri agents interviewing him As a prospective director of the Bureau asked him about the two Las vegas trips which occurred in 1974 and 1975. A said that on each occasion he stopped off in Las vegas during business trips to Western states. Each Lime he said he Learned that a Detroit gambling junket group was there and accepted an offer of a free room at the Sands hotel and a return to Detroit on their chartered plane. They had space available i came Backwith he said. Such amenities Are often provided by Las vegas hotels for heavy gamblers. But Lucas said that aside from one instance in which he set aside $60 As gambling Money for a three Day slay and lost it All in20 minutes i never Gamble. Not at stateside budget deficit for May put at $6 billion Washington Upil the Federal budget was in deficit by $6 billion in May. Pushing the red Ink total for this fiscal Yea to $43 billion the Treasury department the May deficit compared with a $4.46billion surplus in april the first time monthly government income had sur passed spending since the fiscal year began oct. 1. The $43 billion deficit for the first eight months of the fiscal year was $11.6 billion less than the deficit during the same periodic the last fiscal year. Treasury estimated total revenues format of $27.7 billion and spending of $33,7 the first eight months of the fiscal year revenues totalled $223.35 billion and spending was $266.40 billion. Haley had sardines 18$ left when Book sold new York api roots author Alex Haley telling of years of struggle As a writer says be was Down to his last can of sardines and is cents when he finally sold us Book of the autobiography of Black Muslim Leader Malcolm x. I was so Happy i put that can of Sar dines and the u cents in an ornate Glass Frame with a velvet background he told a meeting of 400 Magazine representatives. And last week i had the thrill of hang ing my Pelluer Price Over my Haley won a special Book award this year from the pulitzer committee for roots Bis Story of one Man s ancestors taken from Africa and living la slavery in America. He spoke at the first joint seminar of tin Magazine publishers association the association of National advertisers and the american association of advertising agencies. Princeton mathematician Morse Dies at 85 Princeton . A Princeton University professor Marston Morse renowned mathematician died at his Home Here the University has announced. He was 85. Morse worked with Albert Einstein and John von Neumann on the original faculty of the University s Institute for advanced study which he joined in 1935. He became professor emeritus in 1962. He is credited with originating the variations theory a combination of geometry and analysis that has been applied to Many physics and mathematics questions. Too Rich a Windfall can pose a problem , Wash. A until a few Days ago Gordon Curran s most extravagant dream was to take a trip to Hawaii. Now the 36-year-old Crane operator has to decide what to do with $425,000 he won inthe Irish sweepstakes. Part will go for the Long awaited trip an perhaps a new House he said but that s a lot of Money to decide what to do with. We re just going to have to sit Down an talk about Curran says he plans to get help la deciding How be should be paid whether in Lump sum or Over several years. An inter Nal Revenue service agent in Seattle said taxes on a single payment could ran a High As $265,855? he said be had been buying Irish sweep stakes tickets for 11 years usually three or Lour at a time. He bought the winning ticket from a co worker at the american smelting and refining co., Curran said. Trash fire at world Trade Center Routs scores new York iup1 a trash fire on the 46th floor of the world Trade Center routed scores of persons from the building including dozens of diners at a posh restaurant on the 107th floor officials said. Two persons one of them an employee at the building were treated for smoke Inha lation in the lobby of the 110-Story Tower. The two smoke victims were then re leased a fire department spokesman spokesman said that said smoke seeped through the air conditioning system to the upper floors of the building forcing an evacuation of the windows on the world restaurant in the world s second tallest Blaze was extinguished before fire fighters arrived. Only two bits can buy you a real splurge Cincinnati a Twenty five cent for three minutes. No Cincinnati Telephone rates Haven t gone up. That s what it takes to get the Fountain going in the City s new million Dollar concourse development near the Ohio River. And How about this for value the water goes up 30 feet Over the reflecting Pool. Urban development director Nell Surber who Calls the Fountain creative innovative and sensible does t see what the fuss is about. The people who use u Are the people who pay Tor it she says. All proceeds from the Fountain she said will go to the Cincinnati recreation com Mission. The Fountain can be switched on permanently at any time by order of the City Council. Car thief returns baby unharmed fort Lauderdale. Fla. A an 8-Monlh-old girl asleep in a car when it was stolen was found Safe but hungry sat urday after a tenant of an apartment building reported hearing a baby crying All night police said. Police and volunteers who had searched through the night for Kristina Marie Sidell. Found her about six hours after her disappearance. She had been left on the sidewalk out Side the building and was already in the arms of a tenant when police arrived on the scene. Sgt. Dennis Davis said. The baby hungry and wet. Was taken to a Hospital for a checkup and released Toher parents. It was plenty warm outside and the baby was just Fine Davis said police said the infant had been abandoned by the car thief and her cries mad neighbors suspicious. Kristina had been taken along with her Mother s car shortly after 11 . Friday when a Man stole the car which had been left unattended for a few minutes at a hamburger stand police said. As the car a ii the baby s her. Barbar Sidell threw herself at the door trying to Rescue her child. Police said that mrs. Sidell had left the baby asleep on the seat and the keys in the ignition while picking up a food order. De de la Vergne a police spokesman said the thief apparently did t realize the baby was in the car until after it was stolen. Police continued the search for the thief and the automobile
