Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Blacks kill 2 whites in South Africa - Tuesday, June 14, 1977 Group seeks end to oil JOHANNESBURG, South Af- rica 01) - Three blacks firing Soviet - made automatic pistols killed two whites and critically wounded a third at a downtown garage yesterday in one of South Africa's worst racial in- cidents. Two of the youths were arrested and the other escap- ed. The attack came as the rac- ially divided nation braced for possible violence on Thursday's first anniversary of the bloody Soweto riots. U of M Stylists at the UNION Open 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. DAVE, HAROLD and CHET P O L I C E MINISTER James Kruger called for calm and said the attack appeared unrelated to racial unrest in the nearby black township of Soweto, where hundreds of black students boycotted class- es to protest the weekend ar- rests of 20 of their leaders. Police Commissioner Gert Prinsloo said the weapons tak- en from the youths were simi- lar to those found last year in Soweto. Witnesses said the three youths emerged from a car near the John Vorster Square -named for the South African prime minister - and walked a short distance down the street with weapons in full view. AFTER FIRING a few bursts in the street, the youths enter- ed a department store garage two blocks from the main police station and fired on four me- chanics relaxing during the tea- time break, witnesses reported. One mechanic was killed in- stantly and another died in the hospital. The mechanic who es- caped injury helped subdue one of the assailants, officials said. Police said they confiscated three automatic pistols and two hand grenades. No charges have been filed, officers said. G E R T R U D E PRESTON, 54, a clerk at the garage, said she first noticed the youth hid- ing behind a support pillar un- der a thruway that runs over the area.. "One of them had two auto- matic weapons slung over his shoulder," she said. "At first I though they were playing the fool and were using cap guns ... I heard what I thought was automatic machine gun fire and seconds later there was a loud explosion." Preston said she called the police, who arrived moments later. Willard Marshall, former New York Giant, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati, and Boston Brave outfielder, is in the in- surance business with his father- in-law in Fort Lee, N.J. $y MICHAEL YELLIN On Saturday 150 people as- sembled to attend the Pidgeon River Forum held by the Uni- versity of Michigan Pidgeon River County Association (UM- PRCA) on North Campus, The message the four panel- ists gave was clear, organiza- tion is the key to public in- volvement in government deci- sion making. THE ISSUE addressed by the speakers was whether oil drill- ing should be allowed in the Pidgeon River Forest, the larg- est state forest in southern Michigan, or should environ- mental concerns take priority over resource extraction. Weston Vivian, of the Insti- tute for Public Policy Studies, told the audience, "Don't rely on the government to make money available for public in- terest groups. Your own efforts Wanted! peop1e who can: are the best you've got." Vivian continued, "Organize, organize finances. If you don't get out and collect money nothing will get done. People have to pay lawyers to file suits." In 1968 the Michigan Depart- ment of Natural Resources (DNR) leased the rights to oil and natural gas in the forest to several oil companies. After spending some $2 million for the rights and another $2 mil- lion for exploratory reasons, the companies estimates there are some 76.9 million barrels of oil and billions of cubic feet of gas under the state forest. Until ac- tual exploratory drilling is done, these amounts are not certain. THE CURRENT controversy focusses on Shell Oil's attempts to obtain ten exploratory drill- ing permits from the DNR. But the Pidgeon River Country As- sociation and the Western Mich- igan Environmental Action or- ganization have taken legal ac- ion against Shell's requests. On Nov. 1, the Director of the DNR, William Tanner, will make his final recommendation to drill or not to drill to the State Natural Resources Coun- cil. The final decision is in the Council's hands. Daniel Kostrzewa, represen- tative from the Reef Petroleum Corporation-,told the audience of the energy crisis in natural gas and oil and expressed ur- gency the oil industries feel for extracting these natural re- sources. C A L L I N G environment- alists "fanatics", Kostrzewa la- beled himself an ecologist, and said, "We've dictated a life- style to ourselves, we have to evaluate what it costs to live in this situation." Kostrzewa add- ed the oil should was needed to carry the country, "If we are going to make it to the ma- gic year 2000 when everything will supposedlylbe hunky-dory." Ending his presentation, Kos- trzewa said, "They (the oil in- dustry) want to show you they can drill and then clean up the situation." Mary Sinclair of the Saginaw Valley nuclear study group. and a teacher at the University's Residential College, followed Kostrzewa saying if being an environmentalist made her a "fanatic" then she was glad to be one. Rebuffing the oil indus- tries position that there is an energy crisis Sinclair said, "The day the oil companies ask the automobile companies to stop producing gas guzzling cars be- cause of the energy crisis, is the day I'll admit there is a great need to tear up the Pidgeon River." Sinclair pointed out that the "citizens movement" of the last ten years "has shown the laws favor the citizens" and in most cases judges made decisions in the publics favor. Sinclair then called upon legislators "to give more money to citizens groups to get involved." Donald Inman of the DNR was the fourth panelist. 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