Page Yen THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, May 1 1, 1972 I' Creative Shabbat Experience celebration song dance 5 p.m. Friday, May 12, at Hillel, 1429 Hill Crime probe stalled as witnesses plead fifth' WASHINGTON 0'= - F o u r witnesses stymied a congres- sional probe of alleged Mafia infiltration into professional sports yesterday when they re- fused to answer questions from a House committee. - Several members of the House Select Committee on Crime ex- pressed frustration at the wit- nesses who invoked the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. They suggest- ed these witnesses should not be licensed to operate companies if one of the requirements for a license is a good character. The hearings centered on the financing arrangements used to TV & Stereo Rentals $10.00 per month NO DEPOSIT FREE DELIVERY, PICK UP AND SERVICE CALL: NEJAC TV RENTALS 662-5671 This Week iit Sports FRIDAY BASEBALL-Ohio State (2) at Fisher Field, 1:00 p.m. TENNIS-Big Ten Tournament at Wisconsin SATURDAY BASEBALL-Indiana (2) at Fisher Field. 1:00 p.m. TENNIS-Big Ten Tournament Semi-Finals at Wisconsin Th e uuaityis Sizzlin' Steak Dinner $1.79 3035 Washtenaw across from Lee Oldsmobile purchase the state-licens el Park race track in and the Frontier Hot easino in Las Vegas. Committee members als ed particularly interested connections Emprise C Buffalo, N.Y., holding fii in the two enterprises. Emprise has stocks in tracks throughout the States. One of its major subs' Sportservice Inc., holds fi beverage concessions at numbers of race tracks parks and stadiums. The hearings startedv thony Zerilli, a past ores Hazel Park who was is by the Justice Departs 1969 as a member of the refusing to answer all qt DOUBLE FTbRE BROSLHED DENIV JACKeTs AND spL T KNEE- !JEANS PRC)UCeD BY AkN__ ed Haz- Also refusing to testify w as Detroit Jack Tocco, executive vice pe- el and sident of Hazel Park; Michael Polizzi, a director of the race o seem- track, and Peter Bellanca, an in what attorney for Zerilli who w a orp., a called as a witness. rm ihad The Michigan attorney gener- al's office has identified Tocco ra e e- as a. Mafia figure. Polizzi has United been linked by the Justice De- partment to the Mafia. idiaries, Bellanca, along with Zerilli, ood and Polizzi and Emprise Corp., was 1 a r g e convicted two weeks ago by a b a It U.S. District Court in Los An- geles of conspiring to use inter- with An- state facilities to acquire a hid- ident of den interest in the Frontier Ho- dentified tel. The hotel has since been ment in purchased by Howard Hughes. e Mafia. The four invoked the Fifth uestions. Amendment when ased: -Whether they were mem- bers of a crime syndicate. -If they had ever had stock interests in the Frontier Ho- tel, the Desert Inn, or the Sil- ver Slipper in Las Vegas. -And whether they planned to answer any questions at all. One of the witnesses who did testify at the hearings was Les- ter Ssnit, a former vice prsi- dent of Hazel Park. Smith said he was stripped of his $19000-a-year job as vice president of Hazel Park and of his privileges at the race track after he testified for the govern- ment in the trial of Zerili and Belanca Royals ink 01) Cousy fy The Associated Press KANSAS CITY --- Bob Cousy will remain as coach of the Na- tional Basketball Association team that will move to Kansas City from Cincinnati in the 1972-73 season. Joe Axelson the team's gen- eral manager, said yesterday that Cousy had agreed to coach the team for a fourth year. Terms of the contract were not announced. Axelson said a committee would select several possible names for the team, now called the Royals, and the public would vote on them by mail. Icers acquitted PHILADELPHIA-All charg- es against three St. Louis Blues hockey players and their coach resulting from a brawl with po- lice and fans at the Spectrum last Jan. 6 were dismissed yes- terday in Municipal Court. Judge Maxwell Osminsky dis- missed the charges ons the rec- ommendation of Assistant Dis- trict Attorney James Fitzgerald after counsel for the players and coach read an apology. Al Arbour, 39. St. Louis coach, and players John Arbour, 36; Floyd Thompson, 22, and Phil Roberto, 23, were cleared of any criminal charges. The coach and the players had beencharged with disorder- ly conduct. assault and battery and conspiracy, and Thompson also faced aggravated assault and battery charges. 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