Political endorsements See Editorial, Page 4 I C tr Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom ? IaiQ Mediocre Variable cloudiness today with a chance of sprinkles and a high in the mid-60s. I SVol. XCIII, No. 45 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 30, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages' Razor blades 'discovered in hot do By KRISTIN STAPLETON Supermarkets in five states pulled SBall Park franks off the shelves yester- day as more consumers reported fin- ding razor blades and other sharp ob- jects in their hotdogs - including two purchased in Pittsfield Township, just south of Ann Arbor. Carl Wells of, Pittsfield Township received lip lacerations. Thursday night from a razor blade embedded in a hotdog he had purchased at a Pittsfield Kroger supermarket. His was the second blade found in Ball Park franks this week. TUESDAY, A Detroit woman preparing dinner for her children called police with the first report of a razor in a hotdog. "We contacted the Detroit Police Department (Thursday) night, and it appears the similarities between the two incidents are pretty strong," said Pittsfield Township Police Chief John Santomauro. Santomauro said another township resident, warned by the publicity, yesterday found a half-inch nail em- bedded in a frank. "THE PACKAGE did not appear to be tampered with," Santomauro said, which may mean the hotdogs were con- taminated at the Livonia packing plant of Hygrade Food Products Corp. manufacturer of the franks. Later yesterday, Janet Melonio o ,Redford Township said he was wat- gs ching the television news while preparing Ball Park franks for dinner, and deciding to inspect them, found a metal object imbedded in one. "I removed the object and it ap- peared to be a blade from a disposable type razor," said Redford Township police officer Paul Whiting. "It appears it was inserted during the manufacturing process. There were no holes in the casing. I had to break the hotdog to pull the blade out." CHARLES Ledgerwood, Hygrade's vice president of operations, blamed the first incident on "deliberate sabotage by a misguided employee" at the Livonia plant. But he said the other violated franks may not be related. Ledgerwood said the first razor blade was found in a package that was processed on Sept. 10 - before the Chicago Tylenol-cyanide deaths - and the second in a package processed about Oct. 11. "The immediate concern of our com- pany is to insure the safety of all con- sumers who use our product," Ledger- wood said. The company is offering' a $10,000 rewardfor information leading to the conviction of the person respon- sible for the tampering. A COMPANY spokesperson said it was not known exactly how many t packages of Ball Park meat and beef franks were involved in the five-state recall because "the number keeps growing as we speak." See BLADES, Page 2' Spanish leader asks'for military loyalty From AP and UPI MADRID, Spain- Socialist Prime Minister-elect Felipe Gonzalez, swept into office in a landmark victory that alters the face of post-Franco Spain, appealed yesterday to the nation's restless military to serve democracy. In Spain's third election since the death of dictator Francisco Franco seven years ago, Gonzalez's Socialists Workers Party won an absolute majority in parliament to give Spain its first leftist government since the 1936- 1939 civil war. THE SOCIALISTS thursday captured 201 seats in the 350-seat parliament,; leaving a right-wing party a distant second with 105 seats and virtually wiping out a centrist party that ruled the nation's transition to a democracy. after Franco's death. In his victory speech, Gonzalez, 40, reminded the army of its duty to serve the public. In February, 1981, several hundred men of the Guardia Civil, the paramilitary national police, took over parliament in a coup attempt led by the general commanding the Valencia military district. THE COUP WAS foiled by the inter-. vention of King Juan Carlos, who emerged as the champion and bulwark of democracy. At the outset of the campaign three weeks ago, the government said it had uncovered another army plot to take; over the government and arrested three colonels. It said the plot was ex- tensive but has not said who else was implicated. Business and industry leaders, who supported the rightwing Popular Alliance party of former Franco Minister Manuel Fraga, reacted calmly to the expected Socialist victory. A SPOKESMAN for Fraga's party See SOCIALISTS, Page 2 Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Dorm float The "Real Students Don't Have Time for this Kind of Stuff" float rolls down William Street in the annual Homecoming Parade, yesterday evening. Mark Kunkel, Dan Koster, Ted Warren, John Weiss, and driver Darrell Davery sit atop their float, which was adorned with a desk, chair, boxes of Corn Chex, Cliff's Notes, and term papers. But their effort wasn't good enough, as the Zeta Psi Fraternity-with its space shuttle float-won top honors in the parade. Adult bookstore owner Freeze: A hot issue on ballot attacks By ANDY MEAD The owner of the closed and padlocked Danish News adult bookstore led a small band of picketeers outside the Washtenaw County Building yesterday afternoon in an attempt to "eibarrass the whole circuit court," which has twice closed his store. Sympathizers of Terry Shoultes, who said he owns nine other adult stores across Michigan, including four massage parlours, handed out fliers protesting the "Gestapo tactics ... that the entire Washtenaw County Circuit Court Bench uses in depriving some of our citizens of their First Amendment rights, trial-by-jury rights, and their civil rights." SHOULTES, who estimated he has city of Ann Arbor for $600,000 in damages for a variety of crimes he alleged city officials committed against him and his business. He plans further lawsuits pending the outcome of the appeal of his conviction Sept. 21 for contempt-of court for sud- denly re-opening his bookstore. For that move, he and business agent Noel Lippman spent a weekend in jail, but See OWNER, Page 2 Gestapo tactics' been arrested more than 40 never convicted, said he is times but suing the I By SCOTT KASHKIN Few, if any, of the questions facing state voters in next week's elections have generated so much excitement or fear as Proposal E, which asks voters to endorse a freeze of U.S., and Soviet nuclear weapons. Depending on your point of view, the Freeze movement is either a unique chance for world peace or a guarantee of Soviet aggression against a weakened America. Advocates of both camps have been out in force in past weeks, pressing their arguments about the Freeze's incalculable potential for peace or conflict.I Escapee faces 4 felony OPERATING on relatively small budgets, dozens of independent nuclear freeze groups across the state gathered enough signatures in just a few months to get the Freeze proposal on next week's ballot. See NUCLEAR, Page 2 Offbeat candidates add color to Regents race By RITA GIRARDI term goal, if elected to the board, is to There is a touch of color in this year's "whittle away government in- race for University Regents, but it's not volvement and control of the Univer- coming from any of the major can- sity." didates. From advocating the firing of UNLIKE SOME of his major-party all Marxist University profesors, to the opponents who are calling for increased slow elimination of all state aid for this government aid, Kurczynski believes campus, the minor candidates for the that such involvement ultimately Board of Regents have armed them- results in a lower-quality education. selves to the hilt with "different" "Decreased government involvement positions on the issues. would, overall, raise the standard of Take, for instance, Alan Kurczynski, education," he said. a 19-year-old candidate from the Fellow Libertarian candidate Louis University's Dearborn campus. As a Goldberg, an 18-year-old Ann Arbor Libertarian, Kurczynski said his long - See MINOR, Page 2 charges By GREG BRUSSTAR Despite the fact that he is currently serving a life sentence with no chance of parole, convicted murderer Kyle Johnson was charged yesterday with four : crimes stemming from his. escape last week. Johnson was arraigned in front of 15th District Court Judge George Alexander, and charged with escape from custody, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and two counts of breaking and entering. JOHNSON WAS arraigned in the Washtenaw County Jail instead of the County building "to minimize his op- portunities of escape," said Washtenaw County Sheriff Thomas Minick. Charging Johnson with the additional crimes "is a move to keep him in prison," said Washtenaw County Prosecutor William Delhey. Despite the fact that "no additional prison time will result, opportunities for potential escape might occur, and there will be substantial expense in- volved in the cost of guards and trying the case," Delhey said. The county is going ahead with the prosecutions, he said. SHOULD Johnson be convicted, these crimes would be put on the Department of Correction records and be available ER for consideration in the event of a possible commutation of his sentence, See ESCAPEE, Page 2 Doily Photo by JEFF SCHRIE Convicted murderer Kyle Johnson, 23, is escorted from his arraignment at the Washtenaw County Jail by Sgt Raymond Smagacz (left) and Lt. Nuel Schneider. TODAY-- Pizza pigdom HE GLORIOUS strains of "Hail'to the Victors" ' spurred on the contestants in the homecoming pizza-eating contest at the Count of Antipasto yesterday, as cameras flashed and spectators cheered the eaters to gluttonous heights of pizza pigdom. The contestants-nine teams of two females and two males each-battled it out to consume eight pieces of pizza in the ticing day and night but we never knew it." Two teams- the Moles and the B weirds-withdrew from the com- petition because of personal and digestive reasons. Only nine of the 16 pizzas prepared were eaten, but no one asked for doggie bags.Q Candidates for dollars THE PRESS-Enterprise newspapers of Bloomsburg, Pa. offered $5 to anyone who could name the two n ,,ni fn . orthe t e 11th Cnngresional newspaper," said one woman after failing the test. The an- swers: James Nelligan is the incumbent Republican, and Frank Harrison is the Democratic candidate. Q A better idea A NXIOUS Japanese car salesmen waited and waited ata London auto show recently for their VIP guest, the Japanese ambassador. He arrived late-courtesy of American know-how. His Excellency Tsuyoshi Hirahara turned up late at the meeting in a rented Ford Granada. Mrnnr a.. .f.rr-a torp.. t ."imnnrt--" hsaacP hip Also on this date in history: * 1942-The University gathered 42 tons of scrap metal for the war effort. * 1946-Presidents of all women's houses voted down the weekday late permission proposal. The proposal would have given senior women permission to stay out until 11:30 p.m. during the weekend (one night a week only for junio' women). "Overcrowded conditions" was the reason for the refusal. r 1968-Fistfights and confrontations with police erupted in Detiroit's Cobo Hall during a George Wallace campaign rally. Ten people were arrested and several were honnitaizedi r. I ,I