OCTOBER 18 - 24, 1998 THE DETROIT VOL. 3 NO. 49 75 CENTS S undayTo u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ A new ball game City ponders Tiger By Michael Betzold neighborhood have agreed onproposals the on the project as early as Journal S ta ff Writer concept of keeping the field nextat month. he city of Detroit is consider­Michigan and Trumbull and sur­It is modeled in part on a success­ ing an ambitious plan to dorounding it with condominiums,ful a project in Manhattan, known as what no city has ever done:huge health club and retail shops.Chelsea Piers, where a huge athletic save at least part of a his­ A portion of Tiger Stadium’sclub was built over abandoned piers. Ttoric baseball stadium that isstands being also would remain, and theWhether Detroit can generate replaced. field could be used for baseball, soft­similar excitement for the proposed Consultants commissioned by theball and other events. SPORTS city and residents of the CorktownThe city may put out a request for See STADIUM, Page 4 There’s a way to make Lions winners, writes Eric Pate, fol­ ON THE ROUNDABOUT ROAD TO LANSING lowing Detroit’s 27-20 upset over defending champion Green Bay on Thursday. Page 32. ENTERTAINMENT Music Critic John Guinn gives a standing ovation to Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of “T u ra n d oPage t 9. Orlando Bagwell’s masterful miniseries “Africans in America” was a long time com­ ing, but well worth the wait, says Jim McFarlin.Page 12. 4k Bl£KllKj9fl Classifieds Page 25 Crossword Page 26 Editorials Page 6 Entertainment Page 9 Movie Guide Page 23 Journal photo by SHAWN D. ELLIS Horoscope Page 24 Gubernatorial candidate Geoffrey Fieger takes his campaign message to the Benzie County Democratic Party headquarters as Sports Page 32 part of a 36-hour bus tour from Detroit to Sault Ste. Marie. See photo stoiy on Page 16. 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A favorite fall ritual comes in red and black finally saw my first woolly bear of the season, tors, with the glaring exception of skunks, who con­ but it cost me $5. I’d already found where sider them a delicacy. these fuzzy black and red caterpillars had been B e a u f o r t Woolly bears that successfully overwinter will crossing a street near my neighborhood (I rouse next spring, have a good feed off weeds and Icould tell by the splats of those that didn’t make it), Cr a n f o r d grass, spin cocoons and eventually emerge as but I had to go exploring way out in Cranbrook Isabella moths. Alongside some tiger moths the Gardens to see one alive. Isabella is unquestionably drab, but if you’re accus­ It was worth the money, though; now, as far as tomed simply to the nondescript moths that fre­ I’m concerned, fall’s officially here. And since my quent suburban porches, its black-spotted, dirty- afternoon at Cranbrook I’ve seen lots more of theseThey don’t mind being picked up and ogled, yellow wings can seem handsome. familiar little fellows. either, and are perfectly harmless, which makes These caterpillars are sometimes called “banded” Usually woolly bears appear a bit earlier in the them a great way to introduce a child to caterpil­woolly bears, given their neat arrangement of month, whether in southeastern Michigan or northlars in general and this most congenial of their black-red-black. If persuaded to linger on your Georgia, where I used to discover them crossing kind in particular. lapel, they look remarkably like military insignia. country roads in large numbers. This year they seemTheir first reaction to being handled may be to Once upon a time it was thought that the widths of to be late, as is most of autumn. curl into a tight ball, but given time they’ll uncurltheir colored bands was a sign of how severe winter Woolly bears range across the United States and and explore you thoroughly. What they’ll probablywould be, but this, of course, is silly (unlike such Canada and into Mexico, and around here they’rebe as looking for is a place to spend the winter, which true a symbol of the bright, early days of fall as areis why they’re out there pattering around so deter­ the sumac leaves glowing red along the interstates.minedly in the first place. Woolly bears are Though nighttime temperatures haven’t been atAs caterpillars go, they seem to go very well; a all as low as you’d expect in October, for insects thefriend and I once measured a woolly bear’s a great way to introduce halcyon days are gone. The sound of crickets progress at 40 inches in a minute. And for all I a child to caterpillars around my place has lessened considerably, and Iknow, we had an evolutionary reject. seldom hear a katydid. Woolly bears are about two inches long and But where woods still can be found in the burbs, thickly covered with bristles. This gives them theindicators as acorns the size of baseballs and wood­ scads of little caterpillars are rushing about, colored porcupiny look they share with other caterpillarschucks of in parkas). black on both ends and sort of rusty-red in the middle.the various tiger moths, one of which they are. As it happens, the older a woolly bear gets, the Woolly bears are among the best known of all Fuzziness may seem a bit inconvenient in a tinywider its middle becomes — an attribute this most caterpillars, simply because for a few days every animal that makes its way on the ground, but ifhumble of creatures shares with the most prideful. year they’re all around and usually in motion. you lived under threat of fang and claw and your Their favorite places to cross thoroughfares alwaysunderside was as buck-naked as a woolly bear’s, Beaufort Cranford, a locked-out Detroit News are spotted with those that don’t make it and oftenyou’d want bristles on your topside, too. The bris­copy editor, probably spends an inordinate amount are lively with those still making tracks. tles make woolly bears unpalatable to most preda­of time looking at things on the ground. Re-Elect to Circuit Court The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes JUDGE James R. $ Continues to support the Detroit Newspaper Workers CHYLINSKI W . 1? ' and salute them for their stand against corporate greed. y President: M. A. FLEMING Sec. Treasurer: W. E. LaRUE >- Fully Union Supported X ........................................................ ■ Paid for by Committee to Re-Elect Judge James R. Chylinski, 1011 First National Bldg., Detroit, Ml 48226 OCTOBER 18, 1998 PAGE 11 going out Writers reflect on social movement By Kathlyn Hood Jan. 3, 19.50/$27.50/$32.50, Gem Theatre, Halloween hoots Family/fun/festivals 333 Madison, Detroit, 313-963-9800. Journal Staff Writer Third annual Avant-Carved Non-Carving Fall designer showhouse at the Albert he Southeast Michigan unit of Pumpkin Decorating Event at Cranbrook Kahn-designed B. Siegel mansion, 150 W. Flicks the National Writers Union, Art Museum, 10-noon Sat., $6 or $3 for Boston Blvd.