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Clarifying Amendment Jror Michigan Measure Will Enable Tracks to Donate to Charity; Safeguards Six-Day Meet LANSING, Mich., May 12.— The Michigan legislature took recognition today of the fact that a bill banning the sale of any race track to a charitable organization would also prevent state tracks from making any contribution to charity. "We didnt have that in mind at all," said Senator Creighton R. Coleman, Battle Creek Republican. To enable the tracks to be free to donate to such charities as the United Foundation Community Chest, Red Cross and the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, legislators indicated that they would attach a "clarifying amendment" to the bill. This change would also protect six days of charity racing at the Detroit Race Course sponsored by the Michigan Racing Charities, Inc. The anti-charity bill has already achieved its original purpose, blocking the sale of the Detroit Race Course to Boys, Inc., of America as a charity operation. Earlier this week officials of the Michigan Racing Association announced that they had abandoned plans to sell the track to the nonprofit group headed by Texans Clint Mur-chison and Sid Richardson. In order to safeguard the nharitv rac ing meet backed by horsemen, the Childrens Hospital and the Boys Committee of Detroit, the lawmakers plan to specify that the six racing days be given to the MRA, a profit-making corporation, and that the proceeds be turned over to the charities group. Further, the amendment would permit profit-making tracks to turn over contributions, less than all their profits, to charities.
