Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 4

B-2 LANSING STATE JOURNAL Sept. 26, 1980 Ed tickets earn 'greeting' By DAN POORMAN Staff Writer About 16,500 persons are scheduled to get greetings through the mail from city hall today along with a demand to pay up $15 for each of their old parking tickets. The notices, which include tickets that date back as much as a year, are part of Lansing District Court's way of handling civil infractions. What this means to the person who ignores the ticket on the windshield and the mailed notice from the city treasurer is more bucks going into city coffers. CHIEF DISTRICT Court Judge Bill Coliette said today that the additional $5 charges the old tickets would cost $10 when they reached the court is to pay for increased costs of handling.

"Even if you don't have the money and you accept responsiblity for the ticket, you should come in and say so," Coliette warned. "The law gives you 30 days to pay if you need it." If persons don't pay up, then after 30 days the court will issue a default judgment and that costs another $20 per ticket. If they ignore that, a show-cause order is issued and that means they had better get in to talk with a judge, he said. Those who ignore that warning are named on a criminal bench warrant, meaning any law officer can arrest them and lock them up until they appear in court. "This is enough of a penalty that we hope people go down and pay the tickets," Coliette said.

"We don't want them up here in court. It would save them and us time and trouble to pay tickets when they get them." Coliette also said, at the suggestion of Magistrate Bob Hutchins, a "night court" will be established to let Hutchins hold civil infraction hearings after 5 p.m. "If a person genuinely can't get here, he can schedule a hearing time after 5 p.m. to take care of it," Coliette said. But he also warned that the plan is experimental and will be continued only if the public uses it.

Coliette also said the court will accept checks for payment of fines. In the past, the District Court has had an on-again, off-again, policy of accepting only cash for fines. i jj Staff photo by NORRIS INGELLS lancour latest W1DC-TW coup Practice makes perfect It will all look smooth and precise when the Michi- ce. This picture was taken as members of the band's gan State University Marching Band struts out onto flag corps polished their routines recently on a sunny the Spartan Stadium turf Saturday afternoon, but to morning in a grassy field near Jenison Fieldhouse. make that happen requires hours and hours of prac- 21,000 still idled by school strikes sists that he came fairly close to that at WJIM.

"We had more of a shared responsibility." Kwasnick says he's confident that Lancour can do the job as news director. "My feeling was that he can be much more than just be a news reader." The move comes as a surprising blow to Kremer, WILX's 28-year-old news director. He had helped engineer the Staudt swipe and the WILX ratings gain. "Steve certainly didn't end in failure," Kwasnick says. "We had an amicable parting." LANCOUR GRANTED that he isn't sure about many of the details.

He will be working a day shift will be kind of hard getting my blood going at this time of and co-anchoring the 6 p.m. newscast with Kathy Ti-plady, whose status is unchanged. Ms. Tiplady will also be anchoring at 11, but Lancour isn't sure if there will be a co-anchor. Like Staudt, Lancour will be commute to WILX's Jackson studio.

"I'm used to that, though. The whole time I was working in Detroit, I still lived in Okemos." younger man, Tom Milbourn, to double as anchorman and news director. Lancour, 50, was fired, doing his final newscast on Sept. 13. "I have some bitter feelings," Lancour said at the time.

The ways of Gross Telecasting are very mysterious." But at about that same time, Lancour got together with WILX general manager Ronald Kwasnick. After that first talk, Kwasnick says, he knew he wanted Lancour on his side. "HOWARD IS obviously the most recognizable and credible news source in the area," Kwasnick insists. Cederburg, a former Detroit newscaster, has been commuting to WILX's Jackson studios from suburban Detroit. His successor, Lancour, at various points in his career has been a kiddie-show host (on WJIM's old "Mr.

the head of the state Bicentennial Commission, press secretary for Detroit Mayor Roman Gribbs and a competent amateur actor. (He starred in the Okemos Barn Theatre's "Death of a During that time, however, Lancour has never been a news director. He in By MIKE HUGHES Staff Writer Lansing's new TV warfare has received some more blasts with Howard Lancour's being hired to anchor and direct news for WILX (Channel 10), which fired the two men he will replace. Lancour himself was fired this month from the anchor position at WJIM (Channel 6). WILX, trying to emerge from its underdog role, dropped anchorman Carl Cederburg and current news director Steve Kremer to make way for Lancour, who will be given both jobs.

IN ANOTHER COUP, the Jackson-based station received rights to carry the Michigan State University basketball games. Those telecasts will be handled by an independent company (Commnews). The Lancour hiring is the major surprise. Until recently, he and WJIM produced leads in local news ratings, sometimes by almost a 3-to-l margin. The change came when WILX hired away the WJIM sportscaster, Tim Staudt.

putting the stations almost even in ratings. WJIM retaliated by bringing in a By The Associated Press Strikes by nearly 1,100 teachers in six Michigan school districts continued today, closing classroom doors to about 21,000 students, the Michigan Education Association said. On Thursday, school officials in suburban Grand Rapids began recruiting substitutes to replace 161 striking Kenowa Hills teachers, prompting threats of sympathy strikes by teachers throughout Kent County. A spokesman for the 500-member Kent County Education Association said protest walkouts would be staged by any teacher group showing 75 percent support for the action. The 3,000 Kenowa Hills students have been out of class since Sept.

8. Superintendent Phillip O'Connell said they would be called back on a school-to-school basis but did not set a sumed classes Thursday; 163 teachers accepted a tentative contract agreement Wednesday, Superintendent John Syndor said. The three-year pact provides a 7.5 percent wage increase the first year, 8.1 percent the second and 8.5 percent in the third. Base wage under the old contract was $12,400. IN BAY CITY, 13,500 students returned to school Thursday for the first time this school year.

A tentative contract announced Tuesday ended a three-week strike by 550 teachers. Some 14,000 Port Huron students also returned to school Thursday for the first time since Sept. 15, school officials said. The district's 700 teachers agreed to return to work under a court plan that calls for renewed bargaining. The MEA said strikes continued in Bangor, East Jordan, Kenowa Hills, Kentwood, Lapeer, and Posen.

KENOWA HILLS teachers Wednesday rejected a partially settled contract that would have set salaries for the first year of a three-year contract. In East Jordan, picket lines were set up by 57 teachers Thursday after union bargainers told school board members negotiations were too slow. Teachers want higher salaries and binding arbitration on grievances in the district, which has 1,100 students. East Jordan teachers walked out before Labor Day, but returned to classrooms Monday through Wednesday under a court order while bargaining continued on a new contract. In Posen in Presque Isle County, Superintendent Ronald Mrozinski said classes were suspended on a day-today basis for 390 students.

The district's 24 teachers began their strike this week over economic issues. Muskegon Heights 3,100 students re World opinion kindles Soviet Jews' hope DEATHS and FUNERALS Concluded from page E-l Continuous correspondence, visitors from the free world phone calls, telegrams and 'one of them was a federal judge from Detroit are what to despair, Eidelman said. "Every letter was a sign of was so difficult to stay with the kept his hope from turning hope for me," he said. "It feeling that you are forgot- establishing a new lite elsewhere also have to be absorbed, he said. The Jew trying to scrape up enough money to leave would dearly welcome a pair of jeans sent from the West.

American jeans could be sold for as much as $200 on the Russian black market, Eidelman said. Captain Eidelman was finally granted a visa in 1978 and rejoined his family in Haifa, Israel. He is a teacher in a seaman's school in Acco. He is presently touring the U.S. under the auspices of the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.

His stopover in East Lansing was sponsored by Hillel and the Lansing Soviet Jewry Freedom Committee, a group of local residents who support many Jews in the Soviet Union by writing them often. ten, that you are alone. "By writing 100,000 letters, hopes that as many Jews will out," he added. there will be 100,000 small have the possibility to get PLOTNICK, PHILLIP Lansing Age 93, died at a local hospital Friday, September 26 1980. Service arrangements by the Palmer Bush Funeral Home will be announced later.

BUT NEARLY as important as the moral support is material support," Eidelman added. It costs the would-be emigrant $250 for a visa and another $750 just to denounce his citizenship. Travel expenses and the costs incurred in Boa Jheft charges, questioning coincide FUNERALS 211 E. Sheridan Born November 30, 1892, passed away September 24, 1980. He had been a resident of Lansing for 70 years coming here from Germany when he was 18 year old.

He was a charter member of the German-American Baptist Church, which later became the Holmes Street Baptist Church, and eventually to the Colonial Village Baptist Church. Mr. Zilz owned and operated grocery stores in the Lansing area with his cousin, Assaph Baier for over 40 years. Surviving are his wife, Edith; one son, Carl H. of Houghton Lake; one daughter, Elsie D.

Ford of Lansing; 4 granddaughters and 14 great grandchildren. Christian services will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at the Colonial Village Baptist Church with the Rev. Arthur Boymook officiating. Interment will be in Deepdale Memorial Park.

The family will be receiving friends at the Jessen Funeral Home until 12 noon Saturday at which time Mr. Zilz will be taken to the church to lie in state until service time. Hector Cortes, 25, 1652 Seven Trails -Court, Okemos, was arraigned on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen property in connection with the theft of two boa constrictors and two birds from an East Lansing pet store. CORTES, who was transfered to the Ingham County Jail in lieu of posting $2,500 bond, is also still being questioned by Lansing police in connection with the late August killing of Clarence Beavers. Investigators confirmed today that they still have interviews to do before taking their information to the prosecutor for his decision on charges if any.

Beavers, 45, of 1215 Glen, was found in a pool of blood on the sidewalk just outside the North Presbyterian Church at 102 W. Grand River about 2:20 a.m. Aug. 24. His head had been shattered by a single gunshot.

POLICE AT the time believed Beavers was a murder victim, but sources now say it appears that he may have been the victim of either a deliberate or random gunshot but with no intent to hit him. The East Lansing snakes were taken in a burglary at the Noah's Ark Pet Shop on Sept. 7. They were recovered Wednesday night in an apartment near Eastern High School in Lansing. GRAHAM, JOHN FRANCIS, (JACKIE) Minot, North Dakota Formerly of East Lansing Mr.

Graham, age 30, passed away on Sept. 23, 1980 in Iron Mountain, Mich. He had been a resident of East Lansing since 1966, coming from Fairfax, VA. He was a member of St. Johns Student Parish graduated from East Lansing High School, and Michigan State University; a former member of the Lansing Jaycees.

He was editor of the Grand Ledge Independent for 3 years, moving to Minot, N.D. 2 years ago. Surviving are parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J.

Graham of East Lansing; 2 brothers, Michael P. Graham of Chesapeake, Thomas J. Graham of East Lansing; sister, Mrs. Dennis (Patricia) Kloko of East Lansing. Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated by Rev.

Fr. Thomas D. McDevitt at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Johns Student Parish, 327 M.A.C.

East Lansing, with interment in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited at the Estes-Lead-ley Greater Lansing Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Pallbearers will be John Fisher, Lex Walaca-vage, Peter Walacavage, Michael Belle, Jack Dempsey, Neil Colburn.

WEBER, MARGUERITE 200 Friendship Circle Local woman raped, beaten BENNICKSON, CLARE L. 2405 W. Jolly RL Age 66, died Thursday, Sept. 25, 1980 at a local hospital. He was a resident of Lansing for the past 35 years.

Mr. Ben-nickson served with the U.S. Marine Corp. during WWII. He was a member of the National Rifle Association and V.F.W.

Post 701 of Lansing. Mr. Ben-nickson was employed with Fisher Body for 30 years until retirement. Surviving besides the wife, Helen are 4 children, Evelyn Stanaway, Lowell Bennickson, Lloyd Bennickson all of Lansing and Ralph Bennickson of 4 grandchildren, and several aunts, uncles and cousins also survive. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m.

at the Palmer Bush Chapel with Rev. James C. Dotson officiating. Interment will follow at Hill Memorial Gardens. The family will receive their friends Sat.

Sun. from 2-4 7-9 at the funeral home. he Mass oi me Lrmstian Burial will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Resurrection with Rev. Fr.

Francis Martin officiating. Interment will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited Friday evening at 8 p.m. at the Palmer Bush Chapel.

Pallbeaers will be Gary Weber, Matt Weber, Al Kelly, Bill Sherlock, Danny Roberts, and Larry Devlin. DEWITT A 22-year-old Lansing woman was raped and beaten in a rural DeWitt Township field early this morning, according to police. The assault took place about 4 a.m. in a farmer's field near the intersection of Wood and Herbison roads. The woman was later treated and released from Ingham Medical Hospital.

According to DeWitt Township Police, the man drove into the area, pulled the woman out of the car and raped her. He then left the scene, according to police, leaving the woman in the field. She was able to get help from a nearby home, they said. The rapist was described as a black man, about 24-years-old, wearing a T-shirt and dark pants. The man also wore a mustache, police said.

The woman was being interviewed today by police detectives in hopes of obtaining a better description of her attacker and the vehicle he was driving. State adopts 3-month budget Thieves return Hamilton bust FARMINGTON HILLS (AP) -Alexander Hamilton is safe and sound today, and the thieves who took the 250-pound bust have disappeared into the dark. The bronze bust of the nation's first treasurer was chiseled from a marble pedestal and stolen last weekend from in front of the Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Farmington Hills headquarters. VERNON LUNN, a company vice president, said Thursday he "had a call from some individuals who would not identify themselves. They said they'd picked up the bust as a kind of fraternity joke." "They just wanted to get rid of it without getting into any trouble.

I told them we'd put a van in front of our building (Wednesday night) with the doors open, and any time at night they could put it in and close the doors. "I TOLD THEM, 'I won't ask any questions. I just want my bust my back, because I can't replace state officials would have trouble borrowing money to finance such costs as school aid. For the budget to be adopted, it must be balanced according to the state constitution. HOWEVER, THE DECISION to adopt a three-month budget ended the chance to seek financing from New' York bonding houses, and necessitated the retirement borrowing to keep things going.

Of the proposed tax hikes, raising cigarette taxes four cents a pack would raise $50 million; taxing military pay, $15 million; taxing capital gains, $35 million; the new lottery game, $30 million; and deregulation of liquor prices, with a larger state "take," 50 million. Concluded from pogo B-l sought more slashes in a massively-chopped state budget that "things got a little more realistic" Thursday. But there were also rumors some House Republicans would oppose the temporary budget. THE MILLIKEN administration had targeted the full-year budget at $4.7 billion. But that depended on approval of ways to increase revenues.

Legislative leaders and state budget officials had earlier said adoption of the recession-strapped budget hinged on passage of most of the $180 million worth of revenue boosts. They also said that without a budget in law by the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year. TRUE, JERRY W. 1267 Avenue A Battle Creek Passed away September 24, 1980, age 52 years.

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Lillian True of Lansing; father, Dudley True of Big Rapids; 1 sister and brohter-in-law, Mr. Mrs. Thomas (Kay) Smith of Bellville; 1 uncle, Max Fay of Pleasant Lake; 1 niece and 1 nephew. Mr.

True is at Patience Montgomery Luecht Funeral Home, Leslie where services will be conducted Saturday, 1 p.m. Interment Wood-lawn Cemetery the Rev. William C. Green officiating. The family suggests contributions be made to the Michigan Heart JENKINS, BERTHA C.

1324 Pettis Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sat. Sept. 27, 1980, at the Pennsylvania Avenue Original Church of God with Rev. Cary McLaurine officiating.

Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers are James Ellison William Newton, Elijah Williams, Thomas Washington, James Lynch. Active pallbearers are Rick Ellison, Vincent Scott, Robert Scott Willie De-Berry, Thomas Gillison and Walter Smiley. The family wil receive friends tonight at the Riley Funeral Home from 7 until 8. DUNSMORE, RALPH Fowlerville Age 57, passed away Wednesday at his residence.

Survived by wife, Connie; also by his father, Levi Dunsmore of Fowlerville 2 sisters, Norma and Thelma; 1 Daryl Dunsmore. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Sat. at the Liverance Funeral Home, Fowlerville with the Rev. Jean Tulip officiating.

Masonic graveside services by the Fowlerville Masonic Lodge No. 164 Burial in the Greenwood Cemetery, Fowlerville. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Correction MILLER, M. J.

"DUSTY" Cocoa, Fla. Formerly of Lansing Age 87, died September 17, 1980. Survivors include his wife, Melba of Cocoa, one daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Brabbs of Cocoa Beach; one granddaughter, Susan Ritchie of Re-meo, one grandson, James H. Brabbs of Riverside Calif.

nine great grandchildren and two nephews. Mr. Miller was a life member of Lansing Lodge 196, B.P.O.E. Services were held September 19 in Cocoa with burial in Brevard Memorial Park, Four sisters die; truck driver jailed Auction on Saturday conclude from boer, 61, of Holland, was listed in critical but stable condition at Holland Community Hospital. Stanley Diehl, 28, of Lowell, was lodged at the AJlegan County Jail to await the filing of negligent homicide charges, deputies said.

He was not injured. DECOURVAL SAID police believe Diehl may have been tired or could have fallen asleep when the accident occurred. But the trooper said he did not know how long Diehl had been driving. The auction of industrial machines formerly used by the Sellhart Manufacturing 411 E. Kalamazoo, will be Saturday at 11 a.m.

Items on the block include fork lift trucks, welders, milling machines, grinders, presses and numerous tooling items. A story in an earlier edition indicated the sale at the small factory had already been held. The sale site is reachable only from Michigan Avenue via Mill street. Holland area after purchasing cauliflower and broccoli in the country, said Trooper David DeCourval. The vegetables were found floating around the wreckage in 15 feet of water.

The victims were identified as Dorothy' Kraak, 52, of Fennville; Francis Smith, 58, Saddie DeKraker, 74, and Anna Mae VanderKooi, 63, all of Zee-land, said trooper Emerson Cox of the Michigan State Police post in South Haven. The car's driver, Gladice Schroeten- A For Paid Obituary Notices, Call 487-4704.