European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes july 13 1977 Detroit leaders Hope that old fashioned trolleys and police uniforms will improve Community by Wal am Stevens new York re you real police prank Felix Kirk and John a Lerzak kept Retting asked that question As they strolled the streets of downtown Detroit re drawing sur n or lived double takes and v delighted no resplendent in below Lac knee Blue Tunica with Long rows of brass wearing Hubby style helmets and carrying Long Billy they looked As if they had stepped right out of turn othe Vemury Urban Amer police officials have been worried lest the Public think of to lick As Keystone but there All with a service revolver on one hip and a Walki talkie on the he three officers started pounding a beat along once no tarnished Boulevard As the latest part of a continuing attempt to restore some color and style to the dogeared last came the old fashioned trolleys that loot their Way merrily for nine blocks along Washington Boulevard Between grand Orcus Park and Cuba to came Ibe opening of the lavish Renaissance within two Washington Boulevard is to become a Brick walked mall with a Beer shrubs and volleyball and handball and at the same a mock a Long stretch of Woodward Detroit main is to be similarly transformed and blocked off to All of this 13 being done largely in the name of bul also in the interest of the cites Detroit reputation As a crumbling Symbol of the general Urban malaise has reached legendary pro portions in recent even As Kirk and Pietrzak posed smilingly with two preschoolers As their Grandfather happily took a the decaying Hulk of the old Sailer hotel once a Detroit Symbol o elegance brooded Over the scene scant Yards As executive Deputy police chief James Bannon watched the upbeat he acknowledged thai since warm weather the police Are warily girding against a repeal of summer violence thai cared in Demit id july 19ti and August still not All is violent crime has been on the Wane for and the homicide rate in june was a half to a third of what it was in and if anyone winks Community fun a dead in he should have seen the hype Joy that consumed people in Tiger stadium that too when Tiger Pitcher Mark the cites newest Folk three hit the Yankees the Advent of  police uniforms is related to both concerns the reduction of crime and the promotion of Light six policemen in All Are wearing the uniforms of the result of a suggestion by Robert mayor Coleman Youngs press the borrowed by Pisor from is to help break Down barriers Between the police and the Deputy chief Bannon believes that has slowly been happening across the with the result that More Clunes Are cooperating with the police in helping to identify and arrest the new uniforms proved to be Superb ice Kirk and Pietrzak were stopped by smiling citizens every Lew feel during their first hours on toe and gradually Ibe ohlcen1 nervousness gave Way la genuine Good while the television cameras were still Nazar said somewhat solemnly that hed volunteered because he loved and would do anything Lor the but Pietrzak said that the real reason hed signed on was my old lady left and this has got to be a Good Chance to meet somebody Hes got 17 phone numbers Nazar said with a you laugh show him your just then woman smiled and said a musical How you doin7 one of the Young policemen in and when he discovered that another particularly charming Young woman worked in a store on the be to Fher hell be Back to see her by Erma Bombick at wits end so Many of you were kind enough to write me notes following the March 23 death of my Boston tent which set me Bach 3 but then what it Money at a time be that a Florist in not Only sent me an official death but a Plant life insurance policy created by Craig knowing How Many of you feel about your plants out 1 thought perhaps you would want to insure this is How it in Case of the Plant will be replaced 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