This newspaper has taken about enough bullshit from shopping centers and honk suburbs hassling our sales people. We are preparing a law suit that will give people the right to sell the Fifth Estate without pig interference. If at any time in the past you have been arrested, run off or threatened, please contact our office by mail at 1107 W. Warren or by phone at 831-6800 and tell us what happened…
It’s good in America Dep’t.: Cheryl McCall, ex-rebel editor of the South End and now hippie-writer in residence at the Detroit Noose’s Other Section, will reportedly become editor of a new paper put out by the Model Cities Program. Her boss, the U.S. government, will pay her $12,000 per year…
The 218-day strike by Fruehauf office workers, 80% of whom are women, ended June 24 with ratification of a two-year pact. The strike, marked by police violence, won the workers a 5% wage increase, increased wage classifications and a wage re-opener at the end of the first year. Lost was the demand for a union shop. Both Fruehauf and the union claimed victory in the settlement…
The Wayne State student newspaper, The South End, was the object of an attack by state legislators, who approved a budget for WSU $93,000 less than requested—the amount of money earmarked for the paper…
Bob Cobb, proprietor of Cobb’s Corner Bar, the “movement’s” favorite grog shop, is expanding the storefronts adjacent to the bar on Cass on Willis into a mini-Plum St., which was his brain child four years ago. Already in are a book store and a boutique with a gallery and a pizzeria yet to come…
Liberal-turned-censor Detroit councilman David Eberhard had his plans for a city ordinance prohibiting obscenity, and defamation of the flag and religion shot down by Detroit corporation counsel William P. Doran. The word is that since no agreed upon definition of obscenity exists that the proposed law would be unconstitutional…
Counterfeiting department: Beware rip-off artists selling uppers and downers which turn out to be completely neutral substances. Best advice: leave pills to doctors. Also, some punks are going around selling fake printed tickets to the Goose Lake Park Rock Festival. The only legitimate tickets are a special plastic chip made in Las Vegas that have a metallic center that can be read by a scanner set up at the entrance gate…
The vice-president of the Republic of New Africa, Milton Henry has bought a $58,000 home in all-white Bloomfield Hills for him and his family. Henry says he still believes in a separate black nation, but wanted a comfortable place to live. His brother, Richard is in New Orleans preparing to move to the RNA land in Mississippi to begin building the black nation…
College drop-out Bob Dylan received an honorary degree from Princeton University…
Check out the new “Hip Pocket Directory” at your nearest hip merchant or bar. It’s free and gives a substantial listing of what’s happening in the city…
As Detroit slides into financial ruin Mayor Gribbs is trying to save a few pennies by laying off city employees and is now closing the Belle Isle Casino and the Fort Wayne Military Museum. Why doesn’t he close his Manooghian Mansion and his mouth…
Warren-Forest people have been beating the summer heat at night by liberating the Stone Park pool. Over the fence and splash.
The Detroit White Panther chapter and the Young Prides are planning a Free Lunch for Children Program at noon Monday through Fridays at 4541 Lincoln. There is a need for food, money and people, so call the Panthers at 831-9623 if you can help or if you have children to send…
Check out: The Record House, 23340 Woodward in Ferndale for super-cheap records and all underground papers. Operated by members of the Yipfugs, the store is a non-profit cooperative designed to serve the people by giving them tapes and albums at the lowest possible price…
Detroit’s Grand Funk Railroad played the Atlanta Pop Festival over the 4th for free in gratitude for the start to stardom they received at the Festival last year. Grand Funk has played Atlanta often in the last year and one of those times donated $1000 off their performance fee to the local American Civil Liberties Union “for the kids of Atlanta.” It’s too bad only a few bands have this kind of good attitude; support the ones that do; fuck the others…
Forget about smuggling dope back into the U.S. from Canada. 70 persons were arrested at the border in June and the customs people are really into cracking down on freaks. A bust usually means confiscation of your car…
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission has issued a directive to employers that it is illegal to advertise for job openings by sex. At issue is help-wanted classified ads in newspapers that segregate openings by sex. Newspapers are not affected. They can run them as long as they don’t originate. The Women’s Liberation Coalition of Michigan has been bringing pressure on the papers to stop accepting such ads…
Hughes & Hatcher men’s store is giving away peace window/ bumper stickers. The sign, formed from interlocking integrated arms, is available free by writing them at H & H, Peace Emblem, 1300 12th St., Detroit 48216…
Pig department: The unidentified mod squader rushing the cameraman in the last issue has been named by a Fifth Estate reader as Bob Dawson. A brother from Keep On Truckin’ Co-op was in court on a phony charge brought against him by the mod squad and he gave them the issue with their pictures in it. They didn’t think it was funny…
Bad news: Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug Harvey and his son dumped on a Honda 750 recently. Doug got a broken ankle and his son a bad cut out of the accident…
Security forces have been doubled around the posh Lafayette Park swimming pool with signs posted warning of “armed guards.” The reason is to combat a wave of nude late-night swim-ins complete with weed and Ripple. More guards were added when it was discovered that some of the young rent-a-cops were joining the fun…
Patrolman Oran McDonald’s 20-year-old wife shot six slugs at a hand reaching in through the milk chute of their home thinking it was an intruder. It, of course, was her husband who took a couple of bullets in the left hand…
A State arbitration board has upped the maximum base pay of Detroit police to $12,000 per year plus benefits making it the highest paying high school drop-out job in the country…
A study of the DPD by New Detroit Inc. has recommended control of police use of long guns. Pigs go wild in the Warren-Forest area and the ghetto every time they get a trouble control call bringing out a complete assortment of shotguns, carbines and automatic rifles. Note: As we go to press a fire has destroyed half of the storefronts on Willis mentioned above as planned for development.