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Saturday. 20, DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit ifrcc rco The Back Page I A Jf 7- 1 1 I mm vxw ff if, jO" I ss I ft 'W ttfM Jr Wit MM 1 A- Bus Driver Speeds Up Too Late avvfy i. i hi 1 What could have been a tragedy ended up only a jarring experience for almost all of a busload of school children Friday when their school bus collided with ai '85-foot fire truck hurrying to a call in northeast Detroit. There were few serious injuries among the students of St. Rita's School, 19710 Cameron, but more than a dozen suffered scratches and bruises.

Bus driver Rufus Brantley said that when he sa the rig approaching he speeded up to get through the; intersection of Seven Mile and Hawthorne. He was too late. (Story on Page One.) i Blacks More Tolerant, New Research Shoivs "HELLO RALPH'S GARAGE?" The voice on the telephone was agitated, southern, and the caller was undoubtedly hlack. Xfrhis is Georgs Williams. Listen I'm stuck out here on the parkway, and I'm wondering if you'd be able to come out here any look at my car?" v'-'-rThis isn't Ralph's Garage," came the answer from a man who lived in an all-white section of New York City.

"You have ihe wrong number." "This isn't Ralph's Garage?" The caller grew frantic. terribly sorry to have disturbed you, but listen I'm stuck here on the highway and that wis the last dime I had! "I have bills in my pocket, but no more change to make nnother phone call. Now I'm REALLY stuck out here. What am going to do There was no answer. "LISTEN," URGED THE CALLER.

"Do you think you could me the favor of calling the garage and letting them know Where I am? I'll give you the number they know me over Still no answer. "Oh brother LISTEN. I'm stuck out here! Couldn't you PLEASE help me out by simply calling the garage for me? he pleaded gain. "If YOU were in my situation wouldn't you want someone to help you?" Grudgingly, the man at the other end of the line agreed, placed a call to a fake garage attendant, and became another statistic in a huge New York experiment to test the willingness of blacks and whites to help each other when they didn't have to. Samuel Gaertner of the University of Dela ware and Leonard Hickman of Smith College dreamed up the telephone study as an alternative to asking people directly how they feel about members of another race.

Answers to point-blank questions tend to reflect how a person thinks he OUGHT to feel, as well as Vnv he feels. Gaertner and Bickman chose 1,109 names from the Brooklyn telehone directory, 540 from neighborhoods that were almost totally black and 5(9 from white neighborhoods. 1: SEVEN BLACK MEN and seven white men placed the calls between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., a good time to find people at home. The messages were identical only the pronunciation of words Varied. Blacks used a southern dialect.

Whites used a typical New York white speech pattern. If anyone who sounded younger than 18 answered, the caller Apologized for reaching the wrong number and hung up. if the person who answered the phone agrepd to help, his response was tallied and he was thanked. If he did not hang up but refused to help, the caller relieved him of guilt by saying: "Oh, one second Here comes a police car I think he will be able to give me a hand." Gaertner and B'chman found that whites helped white victims 12 pcrccnt.morc frequently than they helped black victims. Blacks, on the other hand, helped white victims as often as they helped blacks.

Black women, in fact, helped white victims somewhat more frequently than black victims. Ignoring race, C7 percent of the men helped the stranded motorist. Only 58 percent of the women did. Some people hung up before the caller had a chance to tell them he had just used his last dime. They simply thought they had answered a wrong number.

i iMiiMinmii i iiiumiiiihiwii i Hi iiiii ii hi i nil mmm nimi mm wmm tm mt tmt ir ri i Free Press Pholo by JOHN COLLIER Impact catlrml thildrens' IjcJongins on floor of bus Whites were more prone to hang up quickly than blacks ll percent of the whites and 9 percent of the blacks cut the caller off. And women were more prone to hang up quickly than men. Fourteen percent of the women hung up quickly, compared to 5 percent of the men. Gaertnor's and Packman's' study backs up findings of Harvard sociologist Gary Marx, who studied black attitudes toward "whites in 1964 and found little evidence of the intolerance that whites show toward blacks. There were some objections to Marx's method.

It was possible that blacks had lied to white poll takers. It was also possible that not enough single males were interviewed or that real-militants had refused to be interviewed. Giertner's and Hickman's study overcomes these obstacles and indicates that Murx's conclusion Is still true: that "blacks remain perhaps the most tolerant group in American society." Wli illllM ti AhMwl famuli Photo bv WILLIAM GRIMSHAW Tennis shoe dangles from leaning bus (left); rescuers (above) carry injured fireman from scene. nit iT-ii ii y- Photo by JOE MANCINELLI names faces Amarillo Slim Wins 'World Series of Poker meant that there was conflict in the world between good and evil, between righteousness and unrighteousness, and that we should recognize this conflict. As long as Christ delays His coming, there will be conflict in the world, War is inevitable as long as greed, selfishness and sin live in the hearts of men.

Hence, when I pray for peace, I do not pray for appeasement with unjust men; for compromise with evil, or for peace at any price, but that men, motivated by evil, shall come to know Jesus Christ. BY BILLY GRAHAM QUESTION The newspa-. pers, television and radio tell iSs Constantly of churches and Veliglous leaders praying for peace. How can there be peace in a world where there is so much strife, injustice and selfishness? G.B. '-iANSWER-When Christians jtray for peace, they are pray- jjng conditions may prevail' where peace is possible.

certainly are not praying -tor "peace at any price." Ji'vcn. our Lord said: "I came ijot to i peace but a wo.rd." I believe that He 2C-year-old daughter of the late Judy Garland. Irving Sues Publisher Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes autobiography who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the hoax, Friday sued McGraw-Hill Co. for $1.5 million, claiming it conspired to prevent publication of a book he had written describing the literary scheme. Irving and his wife, Edith, said in a New York State Supreme Court suit that McGraw-Hill, which originally bought the Hughes book believing it let it be known in publishing circles it "will view the publication and distribution of the new manuscript as an unfriendly act." The Irvings also said McGraw-Hill "expressed the view that no reputable publisher should publish or distribute the new manuscript." The publishing house has filed a $776,088.43 suit against the Irvings, claiming that amount was advanced to the couple for the autobiography.

The Irvings will be sentenced in state and federal court June 16 on their guilty pleas to conspiracy and other related charges. Mrs. Irving also faces hearings on extradition to Switzerland where she is accused of currency and other violations for depositing the cash advance under a false name as part of the hoax. Slim. "1 don't take no stake I didn't win." One of those who benefitted was Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder, the odds-maker.

"I got a piece of Slim and a piece of Pug he said. "Whichever one loses, Jimmy the Greek wins." 'Miss Fuzz of 1972' Police officer Gayleen Dunn, out uniform in white hot pants, black stockings and boots, was chosen "Miss Fuzz of in a beauty contest for policewomen sponsored by the Los Angeles Fire and Police Protection League. Officer Dunn, 30, a pert 36-22-30 with curly blond hair, paraded with 14 other contestants before the judges as the announcer described their physical and professional qualifications: "A brunet assigned to the Harbor jail a blond from the detective division." "Miss Fuzz of 1972" is married 'to a fellow officer. She is a five-year veteran of force and works in the Van Nuys community relations division. Her husband is Sgt.

Allan Dunn, assigned to the department's public affairs division. Liza, Desi to Marry The offspring of two of Hoi- 1 's most illustrious women stars will be married. In Tokyo, Desi Arnaz the 19-year-old son of Lucille Ball, officially announced his engagement to Liza Minelli, the Thomas Austin (Amarillo Slim,) Preston, whose $10,000 gambling stake had dwindled to $1,700, Won the "world series of poker" and $60,000 Friday in Las Vegas. Preston of Amarillo, was the survivor in a 22-hour contest that started with eight high-stakes poker players. The win was his first in four tries.

Preston cleaned out his remaining opponent, Walter Clyde (Pug) Pearson of Nashville, with a full house after eight hours of play between them. Pearson had been playing a tight "grind" g-me, whittling Preston's pile down with $600 and $1,000 hands. "I never have nothing in my hand except when there's real money on the table," drawled Amarillo Slim. "I just can't get that Texas boy to bet into me when I got him," Pug complained with a sigh. Eight players, each staked to $10,000, began the series with an agreement to play until one player remained with and everyone else was broke.

When play broke up for a three-hour rest early Thursday one of the three remaining players, Adrian (Texas Dolly) Doyle, dropped out, saying he felt dizzy and nauseated. The other two could have split his $20,000 holdings under the rules but shrugged it off. "He's a good old boy," said Ife" mPl It Si I) 1 l'i Jo oV AP Photo Gaylean Dunn (center) smiles after being named "Miss Fuzz." The other contestants are unidentified. "LEROV, CAM I BORROW TWENTY POLLARS TILL I PAY YOU.