House Unit Adds	Token Parochiaid School Aid Bi
•From Our News Wires ■ LANSING—The House Appropriations Committee yesterday added a token $100,000 in parochiaid funds to1'the pres-sent state school aid bill and declared the practice of giving state aid to nonpublic schools was in "the public good and general welfare.”
Further changes were expected in the $845.44-million, Senate-approved bill before a final committee vote. The Senate did not include parochiaid in its school bill for the 1069-70 school year.
The parochiaid amendment also calls for an additional $44 million for the 1970-71 school year.
Committee approval came on a 10-3 vote. Voting against were Jack Faxon, D-Detrpit; Arthur Law, D-Pontiac; and Roy Smith, R-Ypsilanti.
The committee’s addition of the amendment thus sends the controversial. parochiaid concept to the House floor on the coattails of Hie general public school
Operation appropriations. If House Speaker William Ryan and his chief parochiaid lieutenant, J. Robert Traxler, D-Bay City, muster the more than 56 required votes they say they now have, thq concept of state aid to church-run schools would be clearly spelled out.
Gov. William Milliken said the com-
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mittee action was not inconsistent with the guidelines he laid down earlier this year in his education mlssage to the Legislature. However, he noted that traditionally the Legislature does /hot commit tax aid funds for future years no matter how iiard-pressed public schools are for money.
Under the amendment, the State Board of Education would pay teachers and other professionals for secular teaching and services. No state funds would go directly to a school or parent and none could be used for primarily religious activities. ,
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PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1969
VOL. 127 — NO. 76
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Punishment Ruled Out
for Bucher
WASHINGTON M) — Navy Secretary John H. Chafee today ruled out any punishment for any U.S. personnel connected with North Korea’s seizure of the spy ship Pueblo even though a Navy Court of inquiry urged courts-martial for skipper Lloyd M. Bucher and a chief assistant. ’
Setting- aside major recommendations of the 89-daiy inquiry, Chafee declared of the men wly> served on the Pueblo: “They have suffered enough, and further punishment would not be justified.”
While prisoners of the North Koreans, he noted, “They suffered extensively frohi physical abuse and torturous treatment.”
All charges lodged against Pueblo crewmen will be dismissed.
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Sals Of 'Smlrt' To Those Under *18 Is Illegal
Law Aims 1Smut'	FrotnYoung
(Second in a four-part series.)
By DICK ROBINSON
“Censorship” is a dirty 10-letter word to most people. Yet many feel it is allowable When the young are involved.
Obscene material can’t lawfully be sold tp children.
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What is considered an Oakland County test case of this law goes before a judge today. It centers on three Pontiac cashiers who were arrested last week on charges of selling obscene magazines to a minor.
Legal authorities now foresee more crackdowns on the sale of erotic literature to minors throughout the county.
SUPREME COURT RULING
“These may come about as the result of more police departments becoming aware that the U.S. Supreme Court approved a law in April 1968 designed to zero in on sales of pornography to -~children;" As8t8tant Proseeutor-Dennis-Donohue explained.
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The high court ruling was its first setting different standards for printed material sold to children and that offered to adults. It is called “variable obscenity.”
Upheld in the decision was a 1965 New
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York state law. It prohibits sales of obscene magazines and other literature depicting nudity, “sexual excitement, sexual conduct and sadomasochistic abuse” to anyone under 17 years of age.
Adults may still read and see what they choose as guaranteed by the First Amendment, the justices ruled.
MICHIGAN LAW
Pontiac’s three cases and one pending in Royal Oak are being prosecuted under a Michigan law amended in 1964, Donohue said.
“Anyone who knowingly sells or distributes obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent” material “tending to corrupt the morals of youth to persons tinder 18 years old” can be taken to court, the law reads.
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Donohue said the law contains a “pretty stiff” maximum penalty of one year in jail and/or $1,000 fine.
But what is meant by the words “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy and indecent”? . '
JUSTICES CAN’T - AGREE
Even the Supreme Court can’t agree upon that. There are as m any definitions of obscenity as there v are justices.
Many law experts feel the law should include precise definitions of what can’t be sold to minors. Otherwise, there could be many individual trials to determine whether books or magazines are obscene.
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Although judges have supplemented “obscene” with phrases aimed H at defining obscenity —“pruriently appealing” or “patently, offensive” — they are just as vague, critics claim.
State Sen. Basil Brown, D-Highland Park, is heading a move to clarify existing laws on obscenity.
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Showers Clouding Weather Picture
The weatherman predicts considerable cloudiness with \pccasional showers and thundershowers through tomoirow. '
Temperatures will continue warm, with a low of 53 to 58 tonight. The high is expected to rise into the low 70s tomor-■ row.
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The outlook for Thursday’is mild with a. chanqe of showers.
Probabilities of precipitation in per! cent are 40 today, 50 tonight and 40 tomorrow.	. t /
The low. temperature before 8 a.m. in downtown Pontiac was 52. By 2 p.m., the mercury was neaf 66.
"Nixon Won't Control ABMsV Cost Is Soaring
Trial
“I am convinced,’’.Chafee said, “that neither individual discipline, nor' the state of discipline or morale in the Navy nor any other interest requires further legal proceedings with respect to any personnel involved in the Pueblo incident.”	1
The Navy court of inquiry; he disclosed, had recommended after piling up 4,350 pages of testimony that general court-martial trials be held for Cmdr. Bucher and Lt. Stephen R. Harris, his “research” officer-
Bucher would have faced five court-
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WASHINGTON - President Nixon will have to delegate to others the authority for firing Safeguard antiballistic missiles (ABMs) — now priced tagged at $7.8 - billion for just, two bases — according to members of the House Armed Services Committee.
ABM defenders and critics differ on whether, for the first time since development of the atomic bomb in 1945, someone other than a living and capably functioning American president should give the orders to set off a nuclear explosion.
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“It (launch authority) will have to be delegated,” committee Chairman L. Mendel Rivers said. The South Carolina Democrat said he was not bothered by the idea.
Two outspoken critics of Safeguard, Democratic Reps. Lucien Nedzi, Mich., and Otis G. Pike, N.Y., warned there could be situations in which the president would not have ample time to assess information and make a decision on whether to launch.
COST FOR TWO BASES
In the most detailed analysis given "Congress so-^arr-Bepu^- Seeretary—of Defense David R. Packard gave a figure of $6.6 billion for the complete system intended to protect two Minuteman missile bases inNorth Dakota and Montana.
But spokesmen for the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission confirmed yesterday tbjfrt the cost of nuclear w&beads for the defense missiles —$1-2 billion — was not included in the Defense Department estimate.
Freeway Still 6 Years Oft
1-696 Law Upheld
New in Brief
State Aid OK'd forMCOM if .
The Michigan College of Osteopathic Medicine (MCOM), under construction in Pontiac, may receive state funds and recognition if it affiliates with Oakland University as a result, of a bill approved 78-25 by the Michigan House of Representatives yesterday.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Josephine Hunsinger, D-Detroit, provides for state support of an osteopathic college to be located somewhere within Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Pontiac’s MCOM, at Auburn and Op-dyke, is the prime object of the biU, supporters say..
The amended bill specifies that it be affiliated with “an established state university authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees.”
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Sponsor* of. the amendment say the college undoubtedly would be connected (Continued on Pag? A-2, Col. 3)
LANSING (UPI) - Michigan’s Supreme Court has settled a 10-year' dispute over the 1-696 east-west freeway route through southern Oakland and Macomb counties, but state highway of- * ficials say it will still be another six years before traffic flows over the 7.4-mile stretch.
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The high tribunal decision upholds a law establishing a three-member state panel to arbitrate the route. Yesterday’; vote wap 5-1, with Justice Harry F. Kelly not participating.
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The arbitrated route will link the eastern section of 1-696 starting in St. Clair Shores to the western pari which now ends at the 1-696 Interchange in Southfield, allowing travel from Lansing to the northeast side of Detroit without cutting through the center of the Motor City.
The State Highway Commission said
that while the ruling removes the major roadblock to construction of the freeway, “It will be late 1975 at the earliest before traffic begins rolling.”
TIMETABLE
The commission said it hopes to complete route location surveys bv next January,. right-of-way acquisition by mid-1973 and project bids by late 1973.
“Construction,” it added, “will require a minimum of two construction
Estimated cost of the project was pegged at $95 million, including land purchases and engineering studies.
Some 300 homes in the proposed path of the freeway would be displaced.
LAW UPHELD
The Supreme Court decision was against Pleasant Ridge, Lathrup Village and a Lathrup citizens’ group. , (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 3)
Letters Hit a Grave Note
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When the third grader wrote a hospitalized man: “I hope you get well, but if you don’t, I hope you go to heaven,” teacher Annette Sabrino decided She’d turn censor.
‘ But by the time her mother, Mrs. Doris Becker, went into the hospital and the “get-well” project was revived, she had forgotten how morbid the cheery ■. little notes can gat. ' ■ ! /
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Among the “hope you get well very soon” note* was one that showed Mrs. <* Becker complete with folded hands, lily and headstone marked: “Grave. 1919-1969. Mrs. Becker.” „ ,
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - In a direct raforono* fa\ tfaft Ahe Fprtas controversy, . Republican congressional leaders said today that Congress shduld consider legislation to require Supreme Court justices to make public sources of all outside income.
Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirk-sen and House leader Gerald R. Ford made the suggestion following a conference with President Nixon.
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They said the controversy, involving discldsure that Justice Fortas accepted —and later returned—a fee of $20,000 from the family foundation of a convicted financier had been discussed.
N. Ireland Amnesty
BELFAST (UPI) — Premier James Chichester-Clark today announced a “wipe-the-slate-clean” amnesty which wifi free Protestant militants Rev. Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting from prison terms and drop charges against civil rights leaders.'
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Paisley and Bunting had been sentenced to three months each for “illegal assembly” during dvil rights demonstrations for minority Roman Catholics.
H Franc Hits Bottom
PARIS (UPI) — The French franc plummeted to its rock-bottom level today, and gold prices soared to their highest since April 30 in a new burst of international jitters about France’s economic future.
The franc hit 4.9740 to the U. S. doll; forcing the Bank of France to 1 venfe to shore wup. It was the h . . point it has touched since former President Charle; de Gaulle’s defeat and resignation April 2$.
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