Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 2

LOCALSTATE 2A Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 Battle Creek Enquirer A.M. DIGEST Around our communities To submit an item, call the Metro desk at 966-0674 or 800-333-4139 POLICE FIRE REPORT across the face four times while at Nottke's, 775 W. Columbia Ave. about 12:05 am.

Sunday. THEFTS: (Values in parenthesis) Meijer, 2177 W. Columbia Ave merchandise ($116.78) recovered. Capital Avenue NJL, 500 block: amplifier, speakers, speaker box ($500) recovered Wendell Street first block: car Hiawatha Drive, 1st block CD's, stereo, speakers, amplifier Meijer, 2177 W. Columbia Ave-' CD's ($44.97) recovered High-, land Boulevard 1st block flashlight, cell phone Shell Gas, 1443 Capital Avenue NJL: gas Oaklawn Avenue, 100 block: chainsaw BREAK-INS: Kipp Refuse, Inc.

n85 N. Raymond Road computer, fax machine, power tools, printers South 26th Street, 1st block camera VANDALISM: Minges Creek Place, 100 block cars Surby Avenue, 300 block window A man, 18, was arrested on charges of felonious assault after he hit a man, 20, in the head and face numerous times with a small caliber hand gun while in the first block of Laura Lane about 1242 a.m. Saturday. A warrant is requested for the arrest of two men, both 18, on charges of assault and battery, after they got into a fight in the Shell Gas parking lot at 1443 Capital Ave. NJL about 1:35 pan.

Saturday. A man, 47, was arrested on charges of felonious assault after he threatened a 68-year-old man he was living with, with a butcher knife in the first block of Review Ave. about 9:20 jn. Saturday. A warrant is requested for the arrest of a man, 44, on charges of felonious assault after he allegedly kicked and then threw a goblet at his girlfriend, 33, while in the 1000 block of West Michigan Avenue about 1020 pjn.

Saturday. A warrant is requested for the arrest of a woman, 23, on charges of assault and battery after she hit a man, 22, who was the friend of her ex-boyfriends, FIGHTS: Shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, the Emmett Township Department of Public Safety responded to Midway Roller Rink, 11448 Michigan Ave, after someone was reported to have sprayed "pepper spray" into the crowd. Police said several people were having trouble breathing, and a 12-year-old girl with asthma was transported to Battle Creek Health System for treatment while several others were transported for evaluation. The incident turned rowdy after several patrons became upset and began accusing each other of being responsible for the incident according to police.

Several fights broke out in the parking lot which resulted in two arrests. Another person was arrested for disorderly conduct The person responsible for the pepper spray has not been identified by police and the incident is still under investigation. ASSAULT: The following incidents were reported by the Battle Creek Police: Roe vs. Wade The Rev. Jesse Jackson thanked his family and supporters for standing by him as he spoke publicly Sunday for the first time since acknowledging he fathered a daughter during an extramarital affair.

But Jackson, speaking briefly to worshippers who packed Salem Baptist Church, saved his most personal comments for his wife, Page 5A wean Schools and stores closed in Bangladesh's capital Sunday during a general strike called to protest the bombing of a left-wing rally that killed six people and wounded at least 50. Motorists stayed off the streets, but commuters used rickshaws to get around dur-' lng the eight-hour strike in phaka, a city of 9 million people. Page 7A SKITS Jalen Rose shot io-for-14 from the field and scored 24 points, and the Indiana Pacers showed that they, too, can play some dominating defense in an 87-' 74 victory Sunday over the New York Knicks. Page 3B INDEX JSC 2C 'Ann Landers Business Calendar Comics Crossword Health horoscope Local anniversary WVF77; SETTING IT STRAIGHT win 1 MONDAY Augusta Village Council, 7 p.m. Village Hall.

Horner Village Council. 7 p.ra. Municipal Building. Olivet Board of Education. 7:30 p.m, middle school.

Charlotte City Council. 7:30 p.m. Municipal Building. Cokrwater City Council, 8 pm. City Hall.

Westlake-Prairieview Neighborhood Planning Council, 7 pro, Westlake Elementary School. TUESDAY Barry County Board of Comrnissiooers, 9:30 am, County Courthouse Annex, Hastings WEDNESDAY Battle Creek Area Transportation Study Policy Committee. L30 pm, Springfield Municipal Building. Minges BrookRiverside Neighborhood Planning Council, 7 p.m, Minges Elementary (in gym). To post your organization's public meeting, call 966-0674.

Boot camp sued over boy's death Associated Press OXFORD A woman has filed a lawsuit over her son's death, saying he died because of the physical exercise he was required to do at a military-style boot camp in Oakland County. Employees at Camp Oakland Youth Programs, now known as Crossroads for Youth, made Charles Collins Jr. exercise on his first and only day there despite warnings in his files by doctors that he had an enlarged heart, according to Virginia Collins' lawsuit filed last week. On Jan. 13, 1998, the Lansing boy was rushed by camp staff to the Clarkston Medical Clinic and then to St Joseph Mercy in Pontiac, the suit says.

He was hospitalized for two weeks, and died five months later of heart failure, it says. "He has several brothers and a mother who were very devastated by this," said Lansing attorney Andrew Wilkins, who represents the family. "She lost a son at 15 who would have lived for many more years." He said Collins was placed at the camp by the Michigan Family Independence Agency after some family trouble, but he declined to offer more specific information. Officials at the nonprofit family services agency denied wrongdoing, but said they could not discuss the particulars of the case. FLA officials and the director of Crossroads for Youth say the story in Wilkins complaint doesn't agree with their records.

FLA spokeswoman Maureen Sorbet said Collins was not a ward of the state at the time, suggesting that he could have been referred to the camp by a judge. Crossroads usually has about 250 participants in its programs, the goals of which range from criminal rehabilitation to family bonding and building self-esteem. In 1998. Crossroads did have a boot camp program that it is now called the Achievement Center, said Crossroads for Youth Executive Director Janet McPeek. McPeek said Collins was not enrolled in any of the 11 programs offered at the agency, and that no one was rushed to the hospital from the camp that day.

"If he wasn't enrolled here, he never would have been issued a bed, he never would have changed his clothes, he never would have had arty reason to participate in any of the activities here," McPeek told The Detroit News for a story Sunday. "We dont even have exercise on their first day here." In June, an Indiana woman filed a $5 million federal lawsuit claiming her son killed himself because he never recovered from the trauma of his 1997 stay at Camp LOTTERY DMdtyifatgame 2-1-0 DMddiy 3-5-8-1 Daly gm 4-2-0 Daly 4: 5-9-6-6 nitiUowft 3-4-20-21-25 Latta 8-9-24-36-37-39 TUESDAY'S BIG GAME JACKPOT: $67 million WEDNESDAYS LOTTO JACKPOT: $22 million Daly Three 0-3-8 Oatfar 0-6-7-7 Lucky 3-6-13-20-25 OHooder Lotto Jackpot $8 .5 million For previous days' numbers, visit www.state.mi.usAnBottery UFESTYIE Jennifer Lopez is getting on with her career even as the man in her life, rapper Sean "Puffy Combs, is on trial on gun possession and bribery charges. The film and recording star has been doing a national press tour for her new album lo. PageiC 1 lifestyle Movies NationWorld JC IB .....68 Neighbors. Obituaries.

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The location of the meeting was incorrect on Saturday's Neighbors Page. The Battle Creek Enquirer cor- HOW TO REACH US KEWS Our mission is to be the primary news source for all of Calhoun County and parts of Branch, Barry and Kalamazoo counties. If you have a tip or question about a story, cafl Metro Editor Les Smith at 966-0674. or one of our reporters: Battle Cnwk government neighborhoods Matt Gainor. 966-0676.

out cm ra soixas, education: Darcy Vanaman. 966-0665. Mbkn Mmhal and rural Cahoun County communities, schools: Karen Lynn Todd. 966-0684. HhHi news and the corranunibes of Quhcy.

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'B Burinm and economic dwriop rant, including major employers Denso and Keloggte Jenny Rode, 966069a CfMri jurtlu, pate and ftv mm Christenson. 966-0685. For braking news at right call right Assistant News Edtor Mora Breckenridge at 966-0662. "We're really going to need to fasten our seat belts, because book theft in general is just going to skyrocket, thanks to the Internet. It creates a giant flea market atmosphere for selling this stuff." Ken Sanders Security committee chairman, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America battlecreekenquirer.com ENQUIRER Associated Press ROMEO As the demand for rare books and maps is skyrocketing, so is the rate at the collectibles are disappearing from libraries, historical societies and even the Vatican.

Recently, the FBI seized a stash of stolen literature, including a county atlas printed in the 1880s that belonged to the Romeo Public Library. And the library didn't even know it was missing. "Every once and a while somebody's going to pull something," said Cindy Mclntyre, Romeo's assistant library director. They know there's less security in a small library." Books with maps and old etchings can be sliced apart and sold piecemeal to collectors for amounts greater than the book alone would fetch. "If you steal an atlas, and say there are 100 maps in there that you can sell for $50 each to a decorator, or a collector, it is very, very lucrative for thieves," said rare-book dealer John K.

King. He said he recently caught a seller trying to pass on an almanac lifted from the Detroit Public Library. "Now people are stealing them, cutting them up and selling them on eBay," King said The FBI and the National Library Association said they cannot estimate the size of the collectible-book black market Many times, libraries create information networks between themselves and local book dealers to spread the word about thefts. In 1995, an phio State University professor took a razor and sliced pages out of a 600-year-old illuminated manuscript in the Vati- tis, where a motion to dismiss the murder charge will be heard "I'm not free yet," Love said. This case is 20 years old and it's still hanging over my head It worries me every day." Love's attorney, Sarah Hunter, said if the charges are dropped or if her client is acquitted she plans to file a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against police and prosecutors.

Love, 41, accuses the two of "We're really going to need to fasten our seat belts, because book theft in general is just going to skyrocket thanks to the Internet It creates a giant flea market atmosphere for selling this stuff." On the eBay auction site, a 128-year-old Michigan atlas recently was being auctioned off page-by-page. A page with the map of Oak-land County went for $29.50 Wednesday afternoon. Even the most closely guarded collections are at risk of disappearing. The University of Michigan still is trying to recover from losses it suffered a decade ago, at the hands of infamous book thief Stephen Blumberg. "We have no idea, really, what he took from us.

What we got back represented maybe, a quarter of what we lost," said Donald Bre-neau, retired curator of the university's rare book collection. Blumberg made a trek through collections of at least 268 libraries in 45 states during his 20-year career. In 1990, police discovered more than 30,000 rare books and documents, worth an estimated $20 million in Blumberg's Ottumwa, Iowa, home. been dragging its feet" On Sept 10, 1981, James ConneK ly was fatally shot during a botched robbery. Love, then 21, lived on the second floor of a building just above the scene and had a criminal record He'd been convicted of breaking into a car, possessing marijuana and having a stolen television in his apartment Jurors convicted Love in two hours.

can library. Three years ago, the Library of Congress conducted an audit of its collection and came up 300,000 books short Seven original editions of Nicolaus Copernicus 1543 classic, De Revo-lutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) have vanished from libraries worldwide, most recently from a secure vault in Poland last year. Only 260 copies survive of the printing that challenged the Medieval world's belief that it was the center of the universe. The finely illustrated, hand-scribed vellum pages of the Vatican text might have sold for as much as $500,000. Each edition of Copernicus is worth about $400,000.

The Library of Congress estimates that the 27,000 illustrations cut out of its 19th-century explorer journals and botanical books alone might fetch $1.8 million. "Libraries are really sitting ducks, as lay people become aware of how much some of their things might be worth," said Ken Sanders, security committee chairman for the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. hiding evidence that could have helped prove his innocence almost 20 years ago. Ruth Carter, spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Mike Duggan, defended the way the case has been handled and said the office has been unable to get hearings scheduled "It's not our fault The case is still open. We're just waiting for a court date," she said "The court's Cnrk 96WJ674 9644299 tpilllll ttfrOBS VT4 to kur fcon I km comm Smtmwrmi.ma0vamtnH.cMamH turn 'nVWIiH to kfc.

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