The'Michigan Daily - Friday, October 31, 1986 - Page 5
Detroit fights 'Devil's
DETROIT (AP)-Officials urged
residents to help curtail "Devil's
'Night" arson yesterday as police
prepared to enforce the second day
of dusk-to-dawn curfew.
The curfew took effect in the
nation's sixth-largest city at 6 p.m.
Wednesday and continued yesterday
for everyone under 18. Police
spokesman John Leavens said 236
youths were arrested or detained for
violations Wednesday night and
early yesterday.
At least six small fires were
reported on the west side of the city
Wednesday night and a multiple-
alarm blaze broke out in a three
story warehouse on the east side,
Fire Capt. Donald Robinson said
Wednesday night. He said he didn't
know how many were arson related.
Fire officials, including Marshal
Donald Robinson, declined'
comment yesterday, referring
questions to the mayor's office.
Bob Berg, spokesman for Mayor
Coleman Young, said 80 fires were
reported from midnight Tuesday to
midnight Wednesday, compared
with 88 in the comparable period
last year.
part of a "No More Devil's Night"
effort launched by the city.
"The early indications from last
night are that the plan is working,"
Berg said. "The people in the city
have really come together."
Berg said help from volunteers
who patrolled neighborhoods and
watched for trouble was crucial.
"You just don't have enough police
officers to be on every street," he
said.
Of the curfew violators, those
age 17 were arrested and had to post
a $50 bond, Leavens said. Younger
offenders were released to their
parents, who will be ticketed if
their children are detained again.
"We've laid down the law and
we're enforcing it," Leavens said.
Six bus lines were rerouted to
avoid troublesome areaas, said Hued
Kinard, operations assistant for the
Department of Transit.
In 1983, one person died and 553
fires were set over two days. During
a 71-hour period over the last three
In recent years, the night before
Halloween, known as "Devil's
Night," has brought a spate of
arson to Detroit. The curfew was
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days of October 1985, 479 fires
were set, including 64 in occupied
dwellings and 153 in trash. That
number was down 41 percent from
the same period in 1984.
The city also is asking citizens
to turn on outside lights at night,
keep flammable trash out of alleys
and trash containers and watch for
suspicious activity.
Police
ready for
pumpkin
parties
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Corbett said the city employs a few
extra officers on Halloween night
for the safety of the trick-or-treaters.
Nearly all of the trick-or-treaters
steer clear of student housing, so
ybu might as well feed the
Butterfinger bars to the dog.
"I don't foresee anyone showing
up," said Tom Villanueva, an
engineering sophomore who lives
at 912 S. Forest St., about a block
from an area that is highly
populated by Ann Arbor families.
Jean Demmer, a Business
Administration senior who lives in
the Forest Harris Apartments at
1001 S. Forest St., said she hasn't
bought any treats for potential
trick-or-treaters. "From what I
understand, the people who lived in
our apartment building last year
said no kids came by," she said.
THE HALLOWEEN trad-
ition started back during the
festivals practiced by the Celtic
peoples of England, Ireland, and
Scotland to celebrate the dead.
Skipping all the boring stuff in
between about missionaries taking
forever to convert these "pagans" to
a "true" religion, we quickly fast-
forward to the infamous Salem
witch trials.
In all, 20 people were hanged for
supposed offenses such as making
potions of obscene and blas-
phemous materials.
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Waldheim blackmailedA
Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, shown second from left in 1943 as a Nazi, reportedly was threatened with
blackmail into becoming a communist agent in 194748 by intelligence services in Yugoslavia and the Soviet
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computing equipment, they do rely
on tape recorders to record lectures
and to listen to master tapes of
textbooks. Because they depend on
the recorders, most students have
their own, according to Deborah
Corby, secretary for Disabled
Student Services.
The University loans tape
recorders to visually impaired
students on a first-come first-serve
out of the Office for Disabled
Student Services. Recently, the
office purchased eight new
recorders. The Graduate Library and
the UGLi each have one recorder to
loan.
But Thompson complained that
neither library runs regular
maintenance checks on their
(equipment. Corby confirmed this
and added, "It's hard when you have
to repair a recorder and replace it."
She said all the recorders in her
office are frequently checked out.
The Disabled Student Services
and Student Counseling Services
offer volunteer readers for visually
impaired students. Corby said the
service has worked well except for a
,lack of readers in September. "In
the beginning of the semester it
'definitely is a problem," she said.
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