Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 8

State Report A-8 Enquirer and News, July 21, 1980 Dems expect they'l unify and win state in Nov. vote xjampaign'80 ap Photo Firemen check the wreckage from a plane crash near Dalton airport near Flint. The plane hit a tree, then a telephone pole, and flipped in the yard of a house. Phone pole may have saved homeowner in fatal plane crash "They'll have some momentum," Kelley said of the Reagan-Bush "We have a state with 640,000 people out of work; the auto industry is down. We have an uphill fight." "I don't believe that we Democrats can lake anything for granted this year," said Secretary, of State Richard Austin, a Carter delegate.

"I think we've got our work cut out," said Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Detroit, a delegate committed to President Carter. "It's not going to be easy." Democrats easily outnumber Republicans in Michigan, but Ford, an incumbent and former Michigan congressman with strong backing from Gov. William Milliken, carried the state over Carter in 1976. This year's delegates had differing views on whether the Reagan-Ford ticket would have been tougher to beat than Reagan-Bush in Michigan.

"I think the Reagan-Ford ticket was a lot more attractive to the Republican politicians than to the electorate," said Curtin. "It'll be a tough campaign for whoever the Democratic candidate is," said Kim Moran, a Kennedy delegate from Roseville. "Reagan-Ford would have been tougher." "Ford carries a lot more weight than I think Bush would in Michigan," said Ms. Kilpatrick. "For the Midwest, Bush is tougher," said Kelley.

"He has a broader base and more appeal to liberals and By RONDZWONKOWSKI The Associated Press FARMINGTON HILLS Michigan's sagging economy could make the state a real battleground in this Novem-ber's presidential election but Democrats expect to close ranks in time to win. "We'll get it together," Hubert Holly of Detroit said Saturday during a meeting of the state delegation to next month's Democratic National Convention in New York, "I think we'll take 'em." "I think it's possible we could be a major battleground," said delegate Tim Curtin of Grand Rapids. "Especially if the auto industry keeps being depressed like it is." The 141-member Michigan delegation is split 71-70 in favor of Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy for president. Carter has a commanding lead over Kennedy for a first-ballot nomination, but Kennedy supporters are trying to change convention rules to erase all delegate commitments and a struggle is expected in New York. "I don't think it's going to be difficult to get it together once the campaign gets started," said state Rep.

Raymond Hood of Detroit, a Carter delegate. His brother Rep. Morris Hood of Detroit, a Kennedy delegate, agreed and was one of the few delegates who didn't think much of the Ronald Reagan-George Bush ticket forged during last week's Republican National Convention in Detroit. "I don't think it's a formidable ticket," he said. "It's a deal that was cut." State party Chairman Olivia May-nard, who is not a delegate, said Bush is a "fine man," but "Reagan did not handle the selection very well" amid all the hoopla about the Reagan-Gerald Ford ticket that almost materialized.

Reagan "had two months to make up his mind about a running mate, then at the last minute he bungled it," she said. The Michigan delegation includes some of the state's top elected officials and most visible politicians, like Detroit's Mayor Coleman Young, a big Carter booster, and Attorney General Frank Kelley, a Kennedy backer. Delegates learned Saturday that they'll be joined at the Essex House Hotel in New York by the Kentucky delegation, because of a fire which forced the Kentuckians to look for new quarters. An attempt to close the state delegation's caucuses to the media died for lack of support at the sometimes-raucous meeting during, which Republicans were much discussed. The Associated Press FLUSHING James Lynch is thanking a telephone pole today for possibly saving his life and his house.

Lynch said he believes a private plane that crashed in his front yard Sunday killing the pilot and seriously burning a passenger would have smashed into his house if the telephone pole hadn't interceded. "I think it would have come through the window if it hadn't hit the telephone pole and swung around," said Lynch, 46, an employee at a Flint General Motors Corp. plant. Flint's Hurley Medical Center, Travis said. The crash occurred at 11:50 a.m., moments after the plane took off from Dalton Airport.

About 1,000 people watching an airplane club fly-in witnessed the crash, and some told authorities the plane apparently stalled, Travis said. The plane, a 1946 J-3 Piper Cub, was one of about 80 private aircraft at Dalton Airport for a weekly meeting of the Dawn Patrol, a club of Michigan pilots who meet at airports around the state. The plane landed upside-down and burst into flames between Lynch's house and a neighbor's home in the northwest Flint suburb of Flushing, said state police Trooper Richard Ocker-man. Both homes were occupied but none of the residents were hurt, Ocker-mansaid. The pilot, 47-year-old Albert Baize Jr.

of Union Lake, was dead at the scene, said Trooper Theodore Travis. The plane's lone passenger, Melvin Morris, 48, of Flint, suffered burns and was hospitalized in critical condition at ft! North Lower Peninsula up, Detroit area down in census IS L41 The Associated Press DETROIT Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula was the big population gainer, southeastern Michigan was the biggest loser and the Upper Peninsula didn't change much during the past decade, according to preliminary results of the 1980 census. One major exception in southeastern Michigan was semi-rural Livingston County, where the population jumped 67 percent since 1970. Population figures are crucial in allocating federal and state money and apportioning legislative representation, as well as local planning for roads, schools and similar public services. Although initial results are complete for only 50 of Michigan's 83 counties, "generally, the trends are consistent with what we've expected," said Laurence S.

Rosen, a demographer for the state Department of Management and Budget. The Detroit News reported his evaluation Sunday. A rural ambience combined with a healthy economic base probably spurred the northern Lower Peninsula growth trend, Rosen suggested. "It's closer than the U.P. and an attractive area that's sufficiently built up its economic and social infrastructure," he said, noting its popularity both among retirees and long-distance commuters.

A GREAT SELECTION OF WOMEN'S in DRESS CASUAL SANDALS! rj REG. 6.94 TO 10.94 BriefsState ft Counties whose tabulated results showed a population increase greater than 21 percent include Wexford, Grand Traverse, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Alcona, Montmorency and Cheboygan. Among the seven Upper Peninsula counties tabulated, Ontonagon, Iron and Gogebic counties showed population declines, while Houghton, Baraga, Dickinson and Delta counties increased less than 7.5 percent, census figures show. Rosen pointed to the U.P.'s traditional difficulties with remoteness and lack of jobs. In southeastern Michigan, Rosen suggested the overall population dropped because the counties "are already heavily developed and densely populated." Western Wayne County excluding Detroit declined about 2.5 percent since 1970.

Oakland County, north of Wayne County, grew 9.1 percent in the 1970s compared with 31 percent in the '60s; Macomb County grew 10.1 percent In the last decade compared with 54 percent in the '60s, census reports showed. Rosen attributed the 67 percent growth rate in Livingston County to completion of the 1-96 freeway, which linked the area more closely with metropolitan Detroit. But Robert G. McWilliam, director of the Detroit regional office of the U.S. Census Bureau, cautioned that all results were preliminary and were being submitted to local officials for review.

Legislature may end pay-twice building By JENNIFER GAVIN The Associated Press LANSING People having homes built soon may be free of a labyrinthine state law that can mean paying twice for work done once. A special subcommittee of the state House expects to finish by fall the huge chore of rewriting Michigan's "Mechanics' Lien" law. "The part of the program that's a real radical departure from current law is the creation of a recovery fund," said Rep. Jeffrey Padden, D-Wyandotte, chairman of the subcommittee at work for several months now untangling the law. The archaic statute can make a person having a home built liable to pay both a contractor and a subcontractor or supplier for work done.

The double-dose occurs if the contractor gets his money, then fails to pay his subcontractor or supplier a not-infrequent occurrence, to hear some horror stories that have unfolded before the subcommitte. Many Michigan residents are not aware of the financial risks they face by deciding to have a home built, say backers of the revision. Contractor, subcontractor and consumer groups have joined the subcommittee in revising the law agreeing that homeowners need some relief. Under a proposed recovery fund, people having homes built would have a complete defense against unpaid subcontractors' liens by being able to prove the contractor had been paid, Padden said. Unpaid subcontractors and suppliers could draw from the fund to be financed by all licensed trades in the building industry only after exhausting other attempts to get paid.

Only those who had helped finance the fund would be eligible for payouts from it. REG. 9.94 TO 12.94 Policeman kills youth DETROIT A 17-year-old youth was shot and killed by a Detroit policeman early Sunday after allegedly pulling a gun on the off-duty officer, police said. Officer Edward McQueen said Dexter Marshall asked if wanted to buy stolen goods. McQueen said that when he reached for identification, Marshall pulled out a handgun.

The officer fired at Marshall, killing him, said Sgt. Daniel Carr. Newspaper talks resume DETROIT Contract talks between negotiators for the Detroit Free Press and 550 Teamsters were to resume today as a strike by drivers and circulation workers entered its ninth day. No progress was made in talks Saturday, said mediator Lawrence Berry. 5 barns, ski lodge destroyed CADILLAC Authorities blamed lightning for fires that destroyed five barns early Sunday In Missaukee County.

State Police Trooper Dan Vermeulen said a lightning fire also destroyed the Missaukee Mountain Ski Lodge main building. Lodge spokeswoman Susan Rogers said the building was gutted. Sixhurtonhayride PORT HURON Six people on a hayride in St. Clair County were injured slightly when a tractor pulling the trailer lost braking power and traveled down a ravine, said State Police Trooper Thomas Enos. Compiled from The Associated Press REG.

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