Page 4-Friday, July 24, 1981--The Michigan Daily Record damages ordered in housing discrimination suit I CHICAGO (AP) - An heiress and a; housing association have been ordered by a federal judge to pay almost $300,000 in damages to a black couple for plotting to prevent them from moving into a $675,000 home in subur- ban Oak Brook. The award is believed to be the largest ever ordered in a housing discrimination suit, F. Willis Caruso, attorney for the couple, said yesterday. "THERE .(IN the subdivision), people have tremendous wealth," he said. "To have a'message .substantial enough,.it has to sting enough. Sure, it's big (the damages) but the clients are big.', U.S. District Judge Prentice Mar- shall on Wednesday ordered heiress Jorie Ford Butler and the Hunter Trails. Homeowners Association to pay a total of $288,691 to William and Dorothy Phillips, who wanted to buy a house in the exclusive Husnter Trails subdivision in west suburban Oak Brook. THE JUDGE'S decision came several months after Marshall found the association and Butler -_the daughter of the late multimillionaire Paul Butler, the major developer of Reporters that go where the story is. J oli 5 Oak Brook - had violated the couple's civil rights by trying to block the sale. The Phillipses plan to move into the home "in a few weeks," said Martin McNally, another attorney for the couple, who added they don't feel "any animosity" toward neighborhood residents. McNally said the Phillipses would not comment on the matter. "They're just tired and they want to move in. They're not elated. This is not the type of thing to be elated with. They just hope they can go on and live their life." PHILLIPS, 38, owner of a small chain of Chicago-area car washes, had agreed to buy the house a year agofrom Dennis Broderick for 675,000, accor- ding to the civil lawsuit. But Butler and the association worked outa deal in July 1980 to sell the house to Butler after they learned of the couple's race, the lawsuit charged. Under the judge's order, Butler and the association each mtfst pay the Phillipses $100,000 in punitive damages and split the remainder in compen- satory damages andlegal fees. MCNALLY SAID he hoped the case would prevent housing discrimination in the future. "Three hundred-thousand dollars - is a lot of money," he said. "People are going to remember that." Wayne Giampietro, attorney for the homeowners group, said the damage award is "all out of proportion to total reality." He also denied that residents of Hun- ter Trails engaged in prejudicial behavior. "This is not a lily white sub- division by any means," he said. "There's a number of people living there of foreign derivation." Giampietro said he will urge the association to appeal Marshall's order. A spokeswoman for the 95-member association declined comment on the damages, saying, "Forget it." The attorney for Butler was not in his office yesterday and did not return the AP's telephone call. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Chrysler, UAW agree on profit sharing plan DETROIT-The United Auto Workers union and Chrysler Corp. announ- ced details yesterday of a pioneering profit-sharing plan for blue collar workers that could repreetnt a new direction for the entire auto industry. Chrysler and the UAW agreed in January to work out a profit-sharing scheme, part of a contract settlement that granted more than $600 million in wage and benefit concessions to help keep the company afloat. The plan will begin rewarding workers when Chrysler-shows an annual profit exceeding 10 percent of its net worth. That could happen as early as next year, said UAW Vice President Marc Stepp, head ofthe union's Chrysler Department. Under the plan, workers would receive Chrysler stock or credit toward car purchases when the company shows a year-long profit. That Would be in ad- dition to shares received under a separate stock-ownership plan for workers. Mayor upset by removal of third K.C. walkway KANSAS CITY, Mo.,-Workers using torches and a crane dismantled the last remaining walkway over the Hyatt Regency Hotal lobby before dawn yesterday, and the mayor warned the action "would not build public con- fidenfce" in the investigation of last week's disaster. Mayor Richard Berkley said federal officials told him "there would be ad- vantages to testing the third bridge in place" in efforts to determine what caused the second- and fourth-floor walkways to fall. The third-floor walk- way was not positioned between the others and remained standing. In another development, the Occupational Safety and Health Ad- ministration said a construction accident that collapsed a section of the hotel's atrium roof 20 months ago did not involve safety violations and probably had no relation to the skywalk disaster. An OSHA official said the construction accident in October 1979 was not in the same area as the skywalks that collapsed. A section of the atrium roof fell four stories into the lobby during a weekend when no one was in the building and there were no injuries. Nuclear rules removed by Health Department LANSING-The state Department of Public Health withdrew rules covering nuclear power plant emergencies from legislative committee con- sideration yesterday rather than risk a second straight defeat. The action came at a meeting of the Joint Administrative Rules Commit- tee, which last month dumped the same guidelines. The move means the state will continue to operate under 1977 rules drawn up long before the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. A set drawn up after the accident expired in May. The rules set down a framework for the state's nuclear emergency plans drawn up by both the state police and the health department. Utility officials have loudly protested a guideline which requires them to notify local agen- cies if an emergency occurs. One Army division still unfit WASHINGTON-Less than a year after conceding that six of its 10 U.S.- based divisions were unfit for combat, the Army said yesterday that all but one have1shapedlup. Gen. Edward Meyer, Army chief of staff, said in an interview the tur- nabout resulted from advances in manning, equiping and training. Last September, the Army acknowledged that six of its 10 U.S.-based divisions were below readiness levels, Meyer declined to single out any specific divisions for discussion, but it is known that the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, Calif., is the only such outfit still rated as unready. Looking to the future, the Army has proposed increasing its regular strength by about 80,000 over the next five years to provide two more division forces. It also has recommended adding some 20,000 to 30,000 to the national guard and reserves to help man two proposed new backup divisions. If the Army recommendation for increased strength, which has been en- couraged by Pentagon officials who have shaped a global conventional war strategy, should be translated into Reagan administration policy, the Army would top 800,000 men and women within a year or two. 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