I Page 6. - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 11, 1983 Domino's Pizza tycoon buys Detroit ballclub _ «Mimmrro~~e ff~er hiSV T1 t to the From AP and UPI DETROIT - Thomas Monaghan, who once dreamed of playing shortstop for the Detroit Tigers, announced yesterday he has bought the American League Baseball team from John Fet- zer. Monaghan is president and board chairman of the Ann Arbor-based Domino's Pizza chian. 1!etzer, chairman of the board of the Tigers, said the sale involves 100 per- cent of the stock in the American League baseball club, adding that Monaghan is the sole purchaser. Sale price was not disclosed but estimates of the value of the Tigers, viewed as one of the top five properties in baseball, range from $25 million to near $35 million. The sale covers all of the Tigers' minor league franchises as well, Fetzer said. The transfer of ownership becomes effective after the standard review and approval of the commissioner of baseball and the owners of other American League franchises. "I didn't want to own (just) a big league ball club," said Monaghan, 46, owner of the Domino's Pizza chain. "I wanted to own the Detroit Tigers. I wanted to play shortstop for them. But when that possibility failed, I was left with only the other alternative." "There were two big factors," Fetzer said of the unexpected sale. "My age and that I felt I did not want anything to happen to this franchise that has hap- pened to other franchises. "I'm going to be a John Fetzer kind of owner," Monaghan said. "He's the master. I'm just the student." Fetzer, who said the ownership tran- sfer was "not a total cash sale," remains as chairman of the board. "Numerous oi ersn ave come Tigers from many qualified buyers in the past," Fetzer said. "But I have selected Tom Monaghan as the person who, in my opinion, will serve the best interests of the city of Detroit and the fans of the Tigers. Fetzer was not inclined to sell the club when Monaghan first approached him, but Monaghan's connection with University football coach Bo Schem- bechler intrigued the Toger's management. Monaghan, a long-time friend of Bo Schembechler, gave the Michigan coach a pizza franchise in Columbus, Ohio two years ago, in an effort to keep him from leaving Ann Arbor for a coaching-athletic director position at Texas A& M. "I've got a lot of respect for him" said Schembechler of Monaghan. "He's just the sort of guy I think Fetzer was leeking for. I'm happy for - him-it's a dream come true for him." Schembechler added kiddingly, "I'm sure we'll have Domino's Pizza in the concession stands." Correction Author William Gaddis will speak atI the undegraduate Hopwood WritingI Awards ceremony on January 18. Saturday's Daily incorrectly reported that he would appear at the Hopwood ceremonies in April. Doily Photo by SCOTT ZOLTON Jamming A crane rental truck near the construction site on the corner of State and Liberty Streets caused traffic to come to a vir- tual standstill yesterday afternoon, adding another aggravation for Ann Arbor motorists. Love Canal claims case settled Major Events Presents: hu-e e i mangion Oct.13 Hill Auditorium 8pm Meet Chuck at Schoolkids' Records 4 p.m., Day of Show Michigan Union Ticket Office, CTC Outlets 763-2071 ANN ARBOR 2 LrI INDIVIDUAL THEATRESI $1.50 TUESDAY ALL DAY EXCEPT "NEVER" $3.00 VIEW',SEAN CONNERY DOLBY STERO P NNIRIBUIMDByTW~NER RROS APwn ta coMmles THURS. 7:40,0:00 TUES WED. 12:40, 3:00, 5:20,7:20 10:00 LOS ANGELES-A multimillion dollar out-of-court set- tlement has been reached in the Love Canal toxic con- tamination case between Occidental Petroleum and about 1,400 residents who sought billions of dollars in personal in- jury damages, the company said yesterday. The settlement resolves 94 percent of the claims against Occidental Petroleum, Occidental Chemical Corp., the city of Niagara Falls, N.Y., the county of Niagara and the Niagara Falls School District, said Gordon Reece, spokesman for the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum. ALTHOUGH TERMS of the overall settlement will not be released, the cost to Occidental Petroleum would be between $5 million and $6 million-the cost of the company's self- insured share of its liability, Reece said. Other payments would be made by insurance companies, Reece said. The settlement still must be approved in court, he added. Present and former residents of the Love Canal neigh- borhood have filed more than $16 billion in personal injury and property damage claims against Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corp., a subsidiary of Occidental, and the city of Niagara Falls. State and federal lawyers also have filed claims of up to $700 million against Hooker over the dump site. HOOKER DUMPED more than 20,000 tons of chemical wastes into Love Canal for a decade before abandoning the dump in 1953, when it was sold to the Niagara Falls Board of Education. A school and a housing development were built on the clay-capped dump. Love Canal became a toxic-waste disaster in August 1978 when state health officials ordered the evacuation of pregnant women and children because of possible con- tamination of the community by leaking chemicals from a dumpsite. "I'm extremely pleased to report that these suits have been resolved in a manner consistent with established policy to aviod, if possible, protracted litigation over environmental mannters," said Dr. Armand Hammer, chairman of Oc- cidental Petroleum. THE SETTLEMENT "is not an admission of any negligen- ce on the part of the company and should not be viewed or in- terpreted as such," Hammer said. The Love Canal Homeowners Association was notified of the tentative settlement by mail over the weekend and residents, although pleased, had some reservation, said Joanne Hale, a spokeswoman for the group. "There's been false hope in Love Canal before," she said. "How can you get excited about knowing we can pay for our kids' leukemia down the line?" I HURRY! ENDS THURS. JUUETE PTAND A UNivSAL C ,5SC 5I THURS 7:15 ,9:30 TUES. WED. 12:30,2:45,500 7:15, 9:30 Governors reject acid rain tax and presents SWEET DEAqLS FOR Place a Sweetest Day ad in the Michigan Daily for your sweetheart 14 words for only 1.00 (all ads must be prepaid) -If you place an ad, your name will go in a lottery to win: 1 st prize: Dinner for two at Pretzel Bell (up to $25.00) 2nd prize: $10.00 off dinner at Pretzel Bell or- -If you subscribe to the Daily you can place an ad FREE Deadline for ads is Thursday, October 1 3, 1983 Winners will be announced in the October 14th issue of the Michigan Daily 420 Maynard St. 764-0557 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Mid- western governors yesterday rejected a tough statement calling for a national tax on emissions that cause acid rain, deciding instead on a milder request for an accelerated rederal program to reduce those emissions. The policy statement approved at the Midwestern Governors Conference calls for freezing emissions at their 1980 levels until a national plan is enacted and using a phased approach to initiate that plan. IT ALSO SEEKS $100 million of research a year to study health effects of acid rain, trace sources and recipien- ts of the pollution, and determine how to reduce sulfur emissions from burning coal at a reasonable coast. Governors of 13 states from Michigan to Kansas and Kentucky to North Dakota are meeting at the two-day con- ference, which ends today. The governors approved the statement after hearing a speech from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus, who promised the Reagan ad- ministration would announce soon its program to battle acid rain. RUCKELSHAUS SAID he had hoped to present the administration's position on the acid rain cleanup effort at this conference, but the administration is still sifting through two reports on the problem and considering options before formulating its official stand. Acid rain is the term given to sulfur and nitrogen oxides produced by bur- ning coal and other industrial processes which are carried aloft by air currents and then returned to Earth when it rains in other sections of the country. The pollution it causes has killed aquatic life and threatened forests in northern and northeastern states as well as Canada. The oxides generally are emitted in Midwestern states and central Canada, then deposited in the north and nor- theast United States and eastern Canada. THE TOUGHER policy statement which was rejected was offered by Goy. Rudy Perpich of Minnesota, whose state's forest lands are threatened by, acid rain. The statement set a specific goal of reducing emissions by 50 per- cent as quickly as possible and also called for a national tax on emissions to pay for the cleanup. Perpich said his resolution represen-. ted a "tough message" meant to "help get Congress off dead center" on the acid rain issue. But Gov. John Carlin of Kansas op- posed the national tax concept, saying consumers in his state already have paid for expensive scrubber equipment to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants and should not have to pay any more. Councilfunds homeless shelter (Continued from Page 1) Episcopal Church, which had served as a shelter, and came up with the "magic number," 25 people per night, as representative of the homeless com- munity. Deem said that the money had to be approved before any negotiations could take place between the city and the Salvation Army or some other organization which might manage the shelter. Deem said "the snow is about to fall. We don't have time to waste." Because the potential site for the shelter is still under negotiation, the location was not released, but it was said to be near downtown. . In other council action, a resolution to establish a committee on military research was defeated by a 5-5 vote. Councilmember Raphael Ezekiel (D- 3rd Ward) had asked that such a com- mittee be set up to examine the nature of military research being done by companies in the city. "People want to know what is going on and this committee would be able to gather that data," he said. Added Hun- ter: "there are enough citizens in Ann Arbor who believe there is some research that should not be taking place." But council Republicans the council should not businesses because it pressuring them to stop their functions. argued that probe into would be performing SPELL #7 by Ntozake Shange October 19-23 CYR ANOC -%- 1 1 AL- U .. \ DE BERGERAC by Edmond Rosta November 23-27 THE HOSTAGE by Brendan Behar February 8-12 LONDON ASSURANCE Ail ti SUBSCRIBE! 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