Detroit Seen

Compiled by Cathy, Peter and the Crotchpuller with a little help from their friends. Send your scandal to Seen c/o The Fifth Estate.

Turning over the 7^th Floor of the Student Union to WSU strikers cost Wayne State over $53,000 according to “U” officials. The total included stolen furniture, repairs, overtime to pay employees, and $13,000 for sandblasting slogans off of walls. David Baldwin, WSU vice-president said it “was a small cost t& pay for peace at the school”...

Don Lobsinger, head of the right-wing Breakthrough has been labeled a “phony patriot” by his onetime protege and stooge Pat Tifer in the latest issue of Statecraft, a neo-Nazi paper from Virginia. Lobsinger expelled Tifer from Breakthrough and Pat is getting his revenge. The neo-Nazis call for an “inquiry” into Don to find out his “real motivations”...

The Woodstock Nation will have its own newspaper beginning next month. Produced by ex-Argus Editor Ken Kelley and White Panther Minister of Culture (in exile) Gary Grimshaw the paper will run 32 pages in nine colors with an initial press run of 50,000...

Page 12D of the May 21^st Detroit Free Press contains the now famous photo of Mary Vecchio kneeling over the body of murdered Kent State student, Jeffery Miller. Clearly etched in white on the front of her sweatshirt is the word “SLAVE”. The inscription appears on no other copies of the photo in any other publication and disappeared from the Free Press photo in the next issue...

More Visiting Dignitaries Department: Sen. Ed Kennedy is scheduled to be in Detroit June 18 to help raise funds for Michigan Senator Phillip A. Hart. Teddy will speak at what is termed a “gala affair” at the Raeleigh House in Southfield. If Spiro is still foolish enough to come on the 15^th, it should be a busy week...

A Detroit policewoman has been suspended for refusing’ to play whore for the department in their never-ending attempt to end “crime in the streets.”...

Walt Disney’s killer head-flick, Fantasia, is playing at the Studio North. The movie has been recommended by many as being even better and far trippier than 2001...

The Ann Arbor Argus is having difficulty in putting together a benefit. The Eastown refused to allow them to use their permit, and the Palladium is afraid no one will come to their regular gigs afterwards because what the Argus wanted to charge as admission is quite a bit lower than what the Palladium normally charges. Current plans call for a Creem-Argus benefit...

Wayne State University has appointed a director for their newly established “Office of Neighborhood Relations.” Director Conrad L. Mallet has served as director of the Detroit Housing Commission, Director of the WSU City Extension Center, and as an assistant to Mayor J. Cavanagh. Evidently Billy Rea Keast feels Mallet, due to his extensive background, is well qualified for dealing with the “neighbors.”...

The Savage Grace, now at the brink of national stardom, are killing the crowds where ever they play. Their record is doing well, a tour is being arranged, and a massive publicity campaign has been started by their company, Warner Bros./Reprise (check the huge billboard at the Lodge-Ford interchange, and the posters all over the city). The group is managed by ABXer G. Lubin...

WSU now has their very own hot line. Any hour of the day or night you can call 577–1121 and get all the hot poop on what’s going down in the university “community.” Should be pretty far out...

Marty Balin and two of the Jefferson Airplane’s stage crew were arrested in a suburb outside Minneapolis for dope...

For all you ecology freeks out there, you are just in time for a rare visit from the 17 year locusts. These babies take 17 years to mature enough to show themselves, and then do it in massive proportions. Watch where you step for the next few weeks...

Skip and Dave (also known as Teegarden and VanWinkle ) have left Atlantic and returned- to their first (and their own) record company, PLUMM. S&D (T&V-W?) will have their first single out around June 8 — “We Believe in God, Love & Rock and Roll”...

Long Beach California cops evidently couldn’t take being called pigs any more. They have added en masse, a new fantasy to their lives: when someone calls them a pig, they tell themselves it means “pride-integrity-guts” and if they are called pigs, they throw in a “service” for completing the salve that’ll take the “sting” out of that dirty, nasty word...

Detroit’s Frijid Pink’s Parrot single, “House of the Rising Sun,” has been certified as a million seller. Watch for the group the first part of June on an NBC special (if you have a T.V. set)...

The WHO will appear in Detroit July 5 at Cobo Hall.