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Two sections. pager. Traverse Michigan. PINNED-INSIDE KeMr T. Packard.

17, oMTtt In- dianwood, removed after being pinned inside hit car after a time-car accident at the Intersection of Washington and Wellington streets this morning. Traverse City Police said a pick-ep track driven by Ed Prayie, 62, of Bear lake went through a yield sign while traveling north on Wellington Street. Pniyne'f track collided with Packard's car, which was eastbound on Washington and poshed that car Into a car driven by Rose Bohrer, 58, of 2300 Oarfleld Road. Bohrer was taken to Osteopathic Hospital and Packard to Mnnson Medical Center after being pinned for JO minutes. Pruyne who.didri't report any injuries, told police he had a problem with hit brakes.

The accident is under Investigation. (Record-Eagle photo by Dann Perszyk) TCSH death suit settled BILLJPRITCHARD Record-Eagle staff writer LANSING The parents "of "John David Cronk, a' young mental patient who the Traverse City State Hospital rnore than five years ago. have settled with the State of Michigan for $127.629 in a lawsuit that alleged maltreatment had caused their son's death. A spokesman for the state Attorney general said the settlement was "against the state of Michigan' for the "wrongful death" of the young Cronk. The state is not fixing blame on any individuals, the spokesman said, but is saying that Cronk somehow died wrongfully while in state, care.

Part of the settlement includes a stipulation by the Cronks'that a related suit against individual staff members at the hospital would be dismissed. Elections at a glance GOVERNORS: Democrat Clif Finch led Republican Gil Charmichael 'for governor of Mississippi with nearly two thirds of the vote counted; In Kentucky, Gov. Julian Carroll, a Democrat, easily won election to a full term. WOMEN: Women were elected lieutenant governor and Mississippi. Equal rights amendments to the New York and New Jersey constitutions were defeated.

MAYORS: Incumbents were reelected in Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Hartford, Miami Beach and Gary, Ind. They were defeated in Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. SPENDING: rejected bond issues in Ohio, New Jersey and New York. The Cronks, a Kalamazoo couple, said 'they would have preferred to press the' -end In order to get-the-in-" cident aired. "The money means nothing," Mrs Francis Cronk said in a telephone interview this morning.

With the material they had gathered, she believed that there was "no way" they could have lost the case. But when the family's attorney "says settle," she commented, it seemed late in the game to search' for another who would carry the case further. Mrs. Cronk said that she and her husband have been considering telling the story of their son's life and death in a book. would "like to find A'someone" In an earlier interview, the Cronks said they would have preferred the suit to run its full course in court in order to get the story of what happened out They also said that whatever settlement money was given to them would mostly go toward a memorial for John Cronk.

A suit against the hospital by the "Weekender" a defunct Traverse City weekly wh.ich reported the case -is still' pending on grounds of violation of freedom of the press and civil rights GiirPs death probed; respirator unplugged I A I Authorities are investigating the death of a terminally ill teen-age girl to determine if someone pulled the plug on her life-sustaining respirator Sunday in her hospital room. Officials said Tuesday Maryjane Dahl, 16, of Selden. N.Y., died in Nassau Hospital one week after she was admitted for treatment of meningitis, Hodgkins disease and uremia. She lapsed into a coma shortly after she was brought to the hospital never regained consciousness. A spokesman for Nassau Chief-of Detectives; Edward Curran said the police opened their investigation Monday morning after, "members of the hospital staff had told us of certain unusual facts surrounding the death of the young Medical Examiner, Dr.

Leslie Lukash, girl's body was found by a nurse who into the room and found the (respirator's) switch off and the plug out of the wall." The medical examiner said the nurse was alerted by an electronic signal sent out when the pressure Tell on. the respirator. He said hospital officials informed him the plug was apparently pulled The exact cause of death is undetermined, but an autopsy showed the teenager was "a dying girl. she was in a terminal state," Lukash said. The medical 'examiner'said the.

body -was released to a funeral home after a doctor the hospital signed a death" Lukash, however, ordered the body taken from the home Monday to the Nassau County Wednesday, November 5, WT6 IScents- Johnson gfetslife term By MARY GODWIN Record-Eagle staff writer TRAVERSE CITY Matthew Kyle Johnson. 22, was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to a life imprisonment term for second-degree murder stemming from the shooting death of a gasoline station attendant Sept. 2, 1974. Roland Haselton was alone on duty at. the AA Wrecker Service.

537 Bay 'when the station was robbed and be died after being shot with a .22 caliber gun in the face and chest. Police said less than $180 was taken from the till. The murder weapon was recovered in a pine area near the Green Hill grocery, a Traverse City Police officer said today, 'adding Johnson's motive was robbery. Circuit Court Judge William R. Brown Tuesday sentenced Johnson, of 6001'4 Boone St.

for'murder and for a second unrelated offense of larceny in a building. He must spend 32-48 months in jail and get credit for time served. Brown recommended that Johnson be given an opportunity for psychiatric counseling. Johnson pleaded no contest to the second-degree murder charges Sept 28. The original charge reduced from first-degree murder and armed robbeijy Both first and second-degree murder charges carry a maximum life sentence.

Johnson has been lodged in the Grand Traverse County Jail since Sept. 24, 1974 when he was arrested for two unrelated, incidents. He was charged with breaking and entering of Shield's, 2900 Munson and with a bad checks count: He was 'later charged with escape from lawful custody, which stemmed from an attempt to escape from officers Sept. 24,1974. Johnson broke free of deputies but was recaptured within minutes.

Johnson pleaded guilty to the larceny in a building charges in the Shield's incident on Sept. 26, 1975, which disposed of the break-in charge, the bad checks and the escape counts. He wasn't charged with first-degree murder nor armed robbery until Oct. 4,, 1974, after a controversial plea bargaining session concerning the three unrelated charges, Johnson allegedly made a.confession regarding the armed robbery and the murder, of-Haselton during the session. There was a legal dispute whether the confession was admissable into court as evidence.

Judge Brown, ruled June 9 that -admissions from the confession were acceptable into court, but that decision had been appealed by Johnson's attorney. A murder trial had once been scheduled for Aug. 25. It was postponed because of the requested appeal on the ad" missability of the confession along with other legal motions by the defense attorney. A ruling on the appeal was never announced.

Johnson will be transported to the Michigan Department of Corrections in Jackson within a few days. Prosecuting Attorney Michael J. Houlihan said. King may cancel Sahara trek TARFAYA, Morocco (UP1) King Hassan is considering cancelling his march of 350,000 Moroccans to the Spanish Sahara capital of El Aiun and settling Instead for a symbolic trek no further than the territory's frontier, government sources said today. The sources said a symbolic march would probably proceed no further than the frontier, which at its farthest point lies some 16 miles south of here.

King Hassan, faced with twin warnings from Algeria and Spain that they would intervene militarily against his "march.of peace" to claim the Spanish Sahara for Morocco, scheduled a late afternoon nationwide television address (for 1 30 m. EST) How many volunteers and what mode of transport would be involved In a symbolic march was not immediately disclosed. But already, nearly 350,000 civilians have gathered in a huge tent camp outside Tarfaya. In another indication that authorities were considering limiting the march, thousands-volunteers-from the provinces of Marrakesh and Agadir were held up in the Tan Tan area north of here for the fourth consecutive day Only night. Information Minister Ahmed Taibi Benhima claimed the "march of conquest" by the unarmed civilians would go on But on the same day became apparent that Hassan's efforts to force a change in the Algerian and Spanish governments' attitude had collapsed.

The monarch's high-level emissaries returned from Madrid and Algiers with a Algerian apd Spanish warnings that the Moroccans must abide by the U.N. recommendation of self-determination for the territory's p.pulation, and that the march would be beaten back by force of arms. The Moroccan government sources said leaders of major opposition parties both the left and the right had been dispatched to prevent any dissension among the volunteers stranded on their way to Tarfaya. Spain has ordered troops manning its desert defense line in the disputed territory to throw back the "suicidal" march by force if necessary. Franco is in crisis, kidneys begin failing A I a i I -Generalissimo Francisco Franco showed signs of kidney failure today and a communique said his medical team is preparing for a crisis that could be the last his 19-day fight to survive.

Aides at Franco's El Pardo palace said the 82-year-old Spanish leader was in Intense pain 'and clearly wasting away, having lost 22 pounds-from his normal 1101 The first medical communique since late Tuesday, issued at 2:30 p.m., described his condition as grave and signaled the kidney failure by noting that the poisons in Franco's urine were increasing. It said a lung specialist had been call- Clear tonight, moftly sunny and warm Thursday. See page for complete weather information. State GOP leader Dennis O. Cawtborne is seeking funds for a ran at the U.S.

Senate. Page 3. A 'Record-Eagle mini-survey finds that there are in fact some bargain! to be had at the liquidation Page 3. Teacher contract talks reach an, impasse in Suttons Bay but the board of education in Northport approves a contract there. Page.

at an animal feed plant say they were aware of a mbrap with PBB and feed supplements and were told to keep it quiet. Page Traverse City's Trojans go -for a perfect 9 and 0 season Friday at Grand Ledge. Page 15. Classified Comics Community news -20. Editorials Farm and orchard zl Financial Obituaries Sport.

TV log Weather A New Zealand couple take their honeymoon by seeing the U.S.A. in a Model A. Page 19. ed in "as a precaution in case of pulmonary complications," or lung problems, as a result of his emergency surgery Monday night. A doctor said a man of Franco's age was not likely to survive such a blow.

The doctor said aged persons who undergo -surgery and are given such massive transfusions of blood as Franco received often suffer a breakdown in'- the lung's ability'to absorb oxygen. The communique indicated his 27-man medical team expected just such-a breakdown. According to the bulletin, the phlebitis, or blood clotting in the veins of his thigh, "follows its development" and the accumulation of liquid in his abdominal cavity "continues." "The postoperative condition continues its course with the incidents reported in the last bulletin," it said, adding "the prognosis is still grave." Frankfort mayor top votegetter By DAVID AVERILL Record-Eagle staff writer FRANKFORT A little less than a third of this city's 800 registered voters went to the polls Tuesday to elect three aspirants to the city council. Top vote-getter-'. was.

incumbent mayor Ronald Swanson with 162 votes. He was followed by newcomer Cyrus Hughes with 157 and incumbent Elvin SL Olson with 154. Robert J. Mearin" received 142 votes and James C. Short, "97 ''Under the city election ordinance the high-vote getters, Swanson and Hughes, will serve four-year terms and Olson" two years.

Other members of the city council are Dale Carter and Alice Holtenbeck, who were not up for Democrats dominate off-year election wins United Press international cou ld not seek, re-election. Fiach, defying the party leadership, beat Lt. recount was l' ke thlrt terrn over state umiea tress international nomnoraMr nnminatian iMt rammer The Boston race also was Close, out wnue won United Press International The Democrats got a nasty scare in their deep South stronghold of. Mississippi, but they a big victory in Kentucky Tueaday to dominate the off-year election warmups for the nation's bicentennial political show. Cliff Finch, a maverick Democrat who upset toe party leadership choice in last summer's Mississippi primary, opened a lead over Republican Oil Carmichael after trailing the GOP candidate for governor in early counting by nearly 9 1 000 votes.

Carmichael was seeking to become the state's first Republican governor since 1876, but with 64 percent of the vote counted at 2:30 Finch led 206.206 to 197,239. Kentucky followed form, with Democratic Gov. Julian Carroll walking away from Republican Robert Gable, Kentucky and Mississippi also elected women lieutenant governors. New, York and New Jersey, Equal Rights Amendments to state constitutions were rejected. In scores of city! elections, and-favorites generally came although former Mayor Charles law and order independent, pulled off a comeback upset In Minneapolis, Democrat Ted wSson tmrned out the toeombeM to Salt Lake CUjr.

and Mayor Kevin White had a narrow squeak la bosint-roUed Boston i Carmtcbaal pravtoustysonrised politicians bypulUntf 40 percent! of-the vote ia a MW challenge of veteran Misslseippl Sea. James Eastiand, then atartatf enmitelyilng to saeceed Democratic Gov. William Waller, who could not seek re-election. Fiaeb, defying the party leadership, beat Lt. Gov William Winter to win the Democratic nomination last summer.

Carroll's victory gave him the Kentucky statehouse by election. He bad succeeded to the post last winter when Gov. Wendell Ford-was elected to the Senate. The key to his win was a in the area, where, federal court-ordered busing became an issue in the state campaign The' national' lineup of governors before" Tuesday's, balloting was J6 Democrats, and one independent. The Democrats won the only other 107ft gubernatorial race last weekend, Gov.

Edwin Edwards was re-elected -inlxwialana. Despite race at the top, Mississippi Democratic. stKIsurance commissioner Evelyn Gandjra big a was White wor a tbire State Sen. Joseph Timllty after a ornipaign in which boto deplored court-imposed school buslng-but agreed the law had to be In SaltLake City, Wilson, the county director of social veteran Conrad 15-year veteran of city mayorMO months ago. Harrison GOP endorsement in the voters rejected a onw, easilgr, won a second as cltv's won despite the handicaps of a feud with the city's a than one month a successor to Mayor Joseph early lead 1 to Democratic State, Sen.

George Moecone, with John Bar- bageUta and Diane Feinstein running behind. Mayor Ralph Perk, one a major city, won a third term over former GOP Rep. WUliam Hudnut succeed outgoing Republican Mayor Richard He beat Democrat Robert gave Mayor Richard Hatcher, first Mack to head a large ntayoralty A I was beaten bY Democrat Al Hofstede twxt the election was so a term win over i 3 a Mack RepobUoea, ClMdatte Chandler..