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EFFORT TO ANSWER RACISM CHARGES City Offers Jobs as Firemen to Its Black Employes BY JIM NEUBACHER 'I Fret Presi staff Wrltr Charles Lee, a young, black clerk in the Detroit city controller's record office, answered the phone Friday and was offered a job as a fireman. Lee, 21, was excited by the offer, but calmed down enough to tell the caller from the city's Civil Service Commission-that he wanted to think it over. Lee and about 11 other young black city employes were the first potential recruits contacted in a city crash program to better integrate the Fire Department. THE DEPARTMENT has lagged in recruiting blacks, and came under fire recently when the new fire class began training with no black members. The city responded to charges of racism by announcing Friday a number of plans to increase the blacks in the Fire Department.

While civil service tests are re-evaluated and recruiting of blacks is stepped up, the city hopes to use the black employes it already has to fill the Fire Department gap. "The ready supply of these employes appears to us to be the major recruiting resource available in view of the rigid time blacks to the Fire Department could not be viewed as a long-term solution. For example, if Lee decides to become a firefighter, there will be one less black employe in the controller's office. Says Meyer: "We worked like the devil to get minority employes in the controller's office. This is part of the problem of trying to solve all of this at one time." Anoiner potential problem is that, the internal recruiting drive may pluck young black employes out of jobs which could, in the future, take them up the city corporate ladder to policy-making, white collar positions.

MEYER SAYS the recruiting. will only be aimed at those employes who express interest in response to the casual survey by department heads. Lee is currently attending school part-time, hoping to complete his studies with a degree in accounting which could lead him to a comfortable job in the controller's office. But Lee had already applied for a job as a police officer. He.

said Friday he was seriously considering taking the fireman's job. "It a lot safer. At least, I'd like throwing water on something better than shooting somebody, I think." One potential problem is that the internal recruiting drive may pluck young blacks out of jobs which could lead to future policymaking positions. limitations" said the Mayor's Task Force on Firefighter Recruiting. Charles Meyer, head of the civil service department, said Friday that transferring Kennedy Plans Probe Of Bugging5 Sabotage Mru Oil Spill Threatens iUtah Lake MEXICAN HAT.

Utah (UPI) Four thousand barrels of crude oil oozed down the San Juan River Friday as federal officials worked frantically to head it off before it spilled into Lake Powell. A styrofoam boom was installed across the river at Copper Canyon, where it si! Wrmjfj Botn Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate, and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, who unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination, have suggested that during the campaign, including the primaries, they were the victims of such sabotage.

Muskie's staff has prepared a memo outlining incidents where documents disappeared, letterheads were falsely used and false items were planted in newspapers. Frank Mankiewicz, the director of the McGovern campaign, has also described mysterious callers who invited George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, to a bogus meeting in New York and who impersonated Mankiewicz in a call to Walter Cronkite, the CBS ne.vs commentator. New York Times Service WASHINGTON Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, as chairman of a Senate judiciary subcommittee, has ordered a "preliminary inquiry" into the Watergate bugging incident and charges of political espionage and sabotage in the presidential campaign.

Kennedy spelled out his intentions in a letter to the seven other members of the subcommittee on administrative practices. He did not set a date for the probe to begin. The letter made clear that he intended to investigate not only the alleged bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Apartments but also the general question of political espionage ard sabotage during the current presidential campaign. flows into the man-made lake. The thick, slow-moving oil was a mile upstream from the boom.

Two more booms were being installed to catch any oil which slipped past the styrofoam. OFFICIALS of the National Parks Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said they were confident they could the slick before it reached the clear, 186-mile "long lake. They said they planned to contain it, airdrop straw into -it and retrieve the sodden straw with drag lines. The straw will then be either burned or buried.

The slick, which poured into the river from a ruptured pipeline in northwestern New Mexico Tuesday, has already coated 138 miles of the river's banks with a thick black Shriver Talk Sets Off Row CLEVELAND (AP) -Sargent Shriver created an uo-roar in a nurses meeting Friday by making a political speech his host said wasn't si i rf srr? fv Skylab Astronauts 41 wanted. "We were guaranteed a non-political speech," said Charles E. Boss, a director of the National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses. "Instead, we had one of the dirtiest political speeches of the campaign." THE DEMOCRATIC vice-presidential candidate, speaking to the group's annual convention, devoted a part of his speech to denouncing Republic cans "who say we have to keep the Defense Department budget big to keep the jobs going." After Shriver had left the slime. CLEANING the entire course the slick has traveled may take until next spring, according to officials.

The Bureau of Reclamation said the line ran free for about 36 hours before the leak was discovered, and then for another 12 hours during repairs. David Crandall, regional director of the bureau, said spill was about 4,000 bar--rels, or 168,000 gallons. Earlier estimates put the amount at 60,000 gallons. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has sent biologists into the spill area to "determine its affect on fish hall, the group debated a resolution condeming such political speeches. "As'far as I know there was no restriction on what it was to be," said the candidate's press secretary, Burt Hoffman.

"A candidate for office in a political year obviously is going to be political." and game, and to take samples of river water. Officials said the oil may be breaking down in the water and leaving a toxic residue which could harm wildlife. Can Come Clean NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) Astronauts on the Skylab mission will be able to wash that space dust right out of their hair with a shower system designed for zero-gravity environment. When the Skylab workshop is placed in orbit next year, astronauts Charles Conrad Dr.

Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weita will be able to take earth-type shower baths, thanks to the ingenuity of researchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center (LRC). THE SHOWER cubicle, according to John B. Hall Jr.

of LRC, is a collapsible fabric arrangement which will be anchored to the spaceship's deck and be opened only when needed to save space for the number of other experiments planned during the venture. Water in a environment presents special problems. Instead of flowing downward, it sticks to the person and the shower walls and cannot be transferred to the drain. To overcome the flow problem, the researchers devised a vacuum-towel technique in which a small vacuum-cleaner device sucks the water droplets from the wall. In addition, the bather uses special towels.

Space shower-bath technology development at the research center began in 1968 when scientists realized there would be .1 personal hygiene facility requirement as longer space trips were made. The idea was to come up with something to sustain the astronauts bath-wise for periods up to two years or more. For shorter space flights, astronauts have cleaned up, in a way, with wet wipers similar to those used on airliners after a meal. wmmm Ilk 3 sip 4 -s Free Press Photos By IRA ROSENBERG Shriver had just left the nurses' meeting when people began arguing over the propriety of his using the meeting as a political forum. During the speech a handful of people walked out.

"We wanted to keep this a non-partisan meeting," Mrs. Etta B. Schmidt, executive director of the association said. "We understood that this would be an address on the health needs of the people." American Party Sues Networks Pop! It's a Car Assistant Shey Wormer inserts an air hose and the lumpy mass grows, and grows and grows until pop! it becomes a genu'ne rubber Austin Healy. Created by artist Sig Rennels of Staten Island, the inflatable sports car and others will be on display at the J.

L. Hudson Co. downtown from Monday through Nov. 2. Rennels charges $3,500 for the Healy and $2,000 for other rubber cars.

Automatic Voting for House (AP) The House Friday unveiled a $l-million electronic voting system that will replace its time-consuming roll calls start- ing next January. The new system is expected to save about 15 minutes per roll call, which would have saved each member 91 hours if it had been in effect last year. Although many state legislatures have been using automatic voting procedures for decades, the House was told its system is the first fully electronic one in the world. MEMBERS will vote by serting a special card in any one of 49 voting stations scat-t throughout the House chamber, and pressing a but-. ton.

The vote will be recorded after the member's name on a panel covering one wall of the chamber, and a running total Realtor Alger F. Quast Dies I 1 1 1 i I Apollo 17 Rover Set for Long Trip WASHINGTON (AP)-The Apollo 17 lunar rover will travel six miles farther over the moon's face in December than any of the previous vehicles used, the space agency said Friday. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt will carry about 60 pounds of additional weight in their moon car, in the form of two new experiments.

One of the devices to be used for the first time is a traverse gravimeter, an extremely sensitive instrument to detect minute changes in the moon's gravity. THE OTHER DEVICE will measure physical properties of the lunar interior down to about two-thirds of a mile. "Underground water, if it exists, also will be detectable," NASA said. The rover is to travel about 23 miles. The Apollo 16 astronauts drove almost 17 miles, a distance slightly less than that marked by the Apollo 15 rover.

Apollo 17 is to be launched from Cape Kennedy, Dec. 6. The last and longest Apollo lunar mission is to end with splashdown in the Pacific Dec. 19. CHICAGO (UPI) The American Party Friday filed a $25.2 million suit against the nation's three major television networks charging "a virtual news blackout" of the party's campaign.

The suit was filed by Wisconsin attorney John M. Coutre in behalf of presidential candidate John Schmitz and vice presidential candidate Thomas Anderson. The suit claims the news coverage by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the National Broadcasting Michael; two daughters, Catherine and Mrs. Philip Vas-cetti; three sisters, one brother and three grandchildren. The rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday at the Mc-Innes-Desmond Funeral Home, 16111 Woodward, Highland Park. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Services for Alger F. Quast, 57, president of the Alger F. Quast, real estate firm, will be at 4 p.m.

Sunday in the R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Home, 14751 W. McNichols. Mr.

Quast died Thursday in his Northville Township home. A real estate dealer 30 years, he was past president of the Northwest Realty Asso-c i a i and the Western Wayne-Oakland Board of Grand River. Mr. Hillis died Thursday at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. Mr.

Hillis was president of Redford Sales and Service, a trailer sales agency, 23080 Telegraph in Southfield. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. John Becker (Shirley), and Mrs. James Seeley (Beverly); four grandchildren, and a brother, Clayton. Company (NBC), and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is "not news at all but, on the contrary, reflects a multi-million dollar contribution to the Republican Realtors.

He was past director of the Detroit Real Estate Board and a member of Union Lodge No. 3 Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. John Palmer and Nancy; a son, James; his mother, Mrs. Emma Quast, one sister and two and Democratic parties. The lack of coverage has severely impaired the election efforts of Schmitz and Anderson, the suit said.

George five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Burial will be in Grand Lawn. Cemetery. Edna Fink, Retired Teacher Services for Edna Fink, 61, a special-education teacher i the Detroit public schools for 30 years, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the Hunter-Callen-der Funeral Home, 13903 Terry.

Miss Fink of Detroit died Thursday in the Hillside Terrace Nursing Home, Ann Arbor. Much of her teaching career was spent as a visiting home teacher for the blind. She also served in the braille departments of the Franklin and Mann schools before her retirement two years ago. Chester R. Hillis, Redford Sales Chief Services for Chester R.

Hillis, 72, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Ross B. Northrup and Son Funeral Home, 22401 will be flashed at either end. Although all 435 members could be recorded in a few minutes, it is planned to allow 15 minutes for each roll call in order to give members time to from their offices to the House chamber. -Under the present system r.

the roll is called twice and members who miss those can still vote by going to the speaker's table and being re-r corded. The method takes any-' where from 30 to 45 minutes. Rep. Robert McClory, said a recent study showed that in an eight-year congres- sional career a member spends six months of it angering roll calls. Rep.

Wayne L. Hays, chairman of the House Administration Committee, which in-! stalled the system, said consid-! ering the hourly pay of congressmen, who make $42,500 a year, the system should pay i'for itself in one Congress. Maurice Murphy, Ternstedt Retiree Services for Maurice Murphy, 68, retired chief of plant protection at the Ternstedt Division of General Motors will be at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Robert Bellarmine Church, 27201 W.

Chicago, Redford Township. Mr. Murphy of Redford Township died Friday in Ford Hospital. He retired in 1966 after 32 years with the corporation. Surviving are his wife, Winifred; two daughters, Mrs.

Mary DeWolff and Mrs. Cecilia Briggs, and four grandchildren. A rosary will be said at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the Harry J. Will Funeral Home, 25450 Plymouth, Redford Township.

Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Mrs. Frances Locke, Golf Organizer Services for Mrs. Frances C. Locke, partner for more than 20 years in Mickey's Service Automotive Center at Eight Mile and Van Dyke, will be at 10 a.m.

Monday at St. Rita Church, 1000 E. State Fair. Mrs. Locke, 61, of Detroit, died Thursday in Hutzel Hospital.

She was instrumental in organizing the women's amateur golf league at Bonnie Brook Golf Club and played on the Briggs Ladies Softball Team of 1933. She was a member of the St. Rita Altar Society. Surviving are her husband, S7ieJs Missing Free Press readers have been asked to aid in the search for Hester "Susie" Williams, 14, missing since she left home at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct.

4, to attend special classes at the Greenfield Park School. She is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, 140 pounds, blue eyes, light brown hair, light complexion and wearing glasses, a brown skirt and orange sweater. Information about Hester should be given to Policewomen Delores Brunett or Marjie Ashor at 224-4170. Bertha P. Ford, Of Bloomfield Twp.

Services for Mrs. Bertha P. Ford, 98, of Bloomfield Township will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the Wm. R.

Hamilton 820 E. Maple, Birmingham. Mrs. Ford died Friday at the Brae Burn Nursing Home, Bloomfield Hills. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham.

Surviving are three sons, James Russell G. and Absentee Ballots Ready Now Absentee ballots for Detroit residents unable to get to the polls on election day, Nov. 7, are now available at, the City Election Commission, 202 City-County Building. The ballots will be available until Nov. 4.

They must be returned to the commission by 6 p.m. on election day..