Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 23

Second Ward Mistake 42 Facin Loss of Licenses Blamed on Rush Vote By DAVE HANSON State Journal Staff Writer "We goofed," said Roger Busfield, the chairman of the Board of Canvassers. He said the board neglected to add up the vote totals in the Second Ward Council race Tuesday and missed a 100 vote mistake that gave second place and a spot on the April 7 ballot to Sam N. Corey instead of Harold Dachtler. The mistake, Busfield said, was in the addition Monday night of total votes for each of the eight candidates in the Sec a apparent that Corey, trailing by 25 votes in the first set of figures approved, would ask for a recount. He said he suspected that both Corey and Dachtler knew something was wrong with the totals since both had been following the vote count as it came in Monday night.

REGRETTABLE ERROR "It's especially regrettable since the mistake was not discovered in time to prevent telling a man who thought he'd won he'd lost, and vice versa," he said. Miss Fulton said the mistake, the first in her four years as city clerk, was regrettable in the wake of the state-wide Daylight Savings Time recount which turned up numerous errors in vote counting. She said there is a tendency to rush in counting the votes on election night and there is a mass of paper work involved. "We try to go too fast," she said, "and I think we should take the time to be exact whether that means two hours or 10 hours." Corey said he was still talking to his "committee" Thurs day when he was advised by Miss Fulton that he was a winner "I was glad to hear it," he said, "but I feel sorry for Mr. Dachtler.

He ran a real good and high-caliber campaign. I know how he feels. I thought I was the winner at 10:30 p.m. Monday and at 11 p.m. I was the loser." Corey and William Brenke will appear on the April 7 ballot, with one coming out of that election with a four-year term as city councilman.

Final totals gave Brenke 885 votes, Corey and Dachtler 729. don Report on UFOs, released Spring Pose Failure to Appear In Court Carries New Legal Penalty By TIM HOLLAND State Journal Staff Writer Forty-two Lansing area residents are in danger of losing their licenses. Under a new law, persons who do not respond to traffic tickets within 40 days of their violations will temporarily lose their licenses. A. L.

Kirschenbauer, Lan-s i Municipal Court clerk, last Friday sent notices to 45 persons warning them they will lose their licenses if they do not pay overdue traffic fines. Kirschenbauer said today that three persons have answered the notices and appeared in court. If the others do not appear within the remaining time, Kir-. schenbauer said he will notify the Secretary of State. Suspension of the operator's license automatically follows notification, he said.

Though the law first went into effect this year, provisions of the law are being used to catch up with violators who have fines left over from previous years. Kirschenbauer gave motorists with outstanding fines the full benefit of the first 40 days of this year to pay the fines. Each person whose license is suspended gets a point against his driving record. The extra point remains after he clears up his fines. If a person Is stopped by police while his license is suspended, he, will be charged with driving on a suspended license in addition to the offense which attracted the officer's attention.

Kirschenbauer said motorists who pay fines within three working days of their violations fare best. They can pay their fines at the Violation Bureau and do not have to see the judge. Rates at the bureau are set. But a judge can assess a fine up to $500. And he can add court costs on top of that.

Magistrate James. L. Blodg-ett of District Court, Mason, which handles traffic violations in all areas of Ingham County except Lansing and East Lansing, reported he has not complied with the provisions of the new law. "We do not have a typewriter to send the notifications to the Secretary of a Blodgett said. "They won't accept handwritten or printed notifications," he said.

It may be a month away, but it's clear that spring is here and now for Troy Alger, 223 W. Gier, as he strolls along sun-dappled street dreamily carrying his coat with his teeth. (State Journal Photo by Jack Bolt) -3- eJOURNAIi NEWS UFO SIGHTING Earl J. Neff, an expert on UFOs, explains a drawing he made of a sighting in Cleveland, Ohio, to members of the Michigan ESP Research Associ ates. From left are Mrs.

Peggy King, Mrs. Betty Barrow, Neff, and Mrs. Shirley Jonas, director of the ESP group. (State Journal Photo) Space Life Believed UFOs Expert Raps Doubters Entomologist William W. Thompson of Allegan has been named extension fruit entomologist and will direct and coordinate Michigan State University's fruit insect extension program.

THE STATE a Rev. Cermak Opens Lenten LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN Friday, February 21, 1969 SECTION Series at Goof ond Ward. Dachtler was given 113 votes instead of 13 in the 19th precinct, at Miller Road Community Hall. DID NOT CHECK He said the canvassing board usually re-adds all the figures the next day but did not do so in this case. The other races were added up, he said.

There was no reason to suspect the figures would be wrong, based on past experience, he said. Busfield said City Clerk Theo Fulton checked the figures again Thursday when it be- stealing a heifer from his farm late one night. Just what are these objects, sightings of which have increased tremendously since 1947? Earl J. Neff, of Cleveland, Ohio, and head of the Cleve-1 a Ufology Project, said Thursday he believes that UFOs arealien vessels piloted by intelligent beings from another solar system. Speaking at a press conference here, he also said the Air Force has been deliberately covering up the truth about UFOs for years, trying to pass initiated has reported that in 18 cities there is an "appalling lack of recreational facilities totaling $618 million." "Based strictly on established needs, I am considering not only range of ratios for allocations between local grants and state spending, but I am also considering a system for determining spending priorities for the state and local grant program.

The ultimate decision must be in the hands of the Legislature," he said. Milliken promised to push for swift action on both the recreational problem and the' distribution of funds for waste treatment facilities under the clean water bond proposal, which also passed last November. BILLS PENDING He noted that bills to implement clean water programs are now pending in the Legislature and said they "must be enacted before1 we can initiate our grant programl" He said he had urged prompt attention to the problem in his special message to the Legislature so funds would be available for starting construction on the many projects this spring. Milliken alsq came out in favor of the council of government approach to solving the problems of metropolitan areas on a cooperative basis. He said such a group is now "well established and functioning" in southeast Michigan and commended it to the attention of those city officials attending the two-day legislative What are you trying to prove by your life? This question was posed today by the Rev.

John C. Cermak, pastor of Okemos Community Church, at the first in a series of "Men and Religion" Lenten luncheons at the YMCA. He told his audience that most people don't find many causes today for which they are willing to die, that the emphasis instead is on living. Noting the Apostle Paul's guideline for himself, "For ine to live is for Christ to live!" he said that this becomes not a funeral text, but a commitment to living for men and women in the 20th century. "Three questions are critical," the Rev.

Mr. Cermak said, "in the commitment to a living faith in a living Lord: Why do you live? What are you trying to prove by your life? And what is your final commitment in living? Namely, that is worth dying for? Bond Sale Delaying Skywalks City Controller Raymond W. Burgess told overpass boosters this morning that it will probably be late June before $500,000 worth of general obligation bonds are sold to finance the construction of at least 21 sky-walks. Burgess said there was "no alternative" to bonding because of a "built-in" $1 million hike in the city's 1969-70 budget because of pay raises for city employes and other factors. He said the application for the bonds will be submitted to the Michigan Municipal Finance Commission within two-weeks, but it will probably take two months for approval and may take another month before the bonds are sold.

Meeting with Burgess this morning were James Dunn, chairman of the citizens group which started the drive for pedestrian overpasses, John Rau, the vice chairman, and the Rev. Angelus LaFleur of Holy Cross. The group also met with Public Service Director Robert Backus. who is a substitute teacher, are the parents of four children: Carl 13; Ada, 11; Amy, 8, and Curt, 5. The family lives at 2000 Alpha.

DUANE R. RUSSELL Rev. what Cermak is there By JIM HOUGH Government bureaucracy, red tape and a little bit of "pull" were some of the ingredients in the John Stimson story. John, who lives at 107 Richard, planned to make a trip to Spain with about 100 other members of Lansing area Elks Lodges. Stimson and his wife made application for passports and all went well for Mrs.

Stimson. But, John had some trouble because of a minor detail his birth certificate said he was a "female." A U.S. Navy veteran and a man who had been married 20 years, Stimson, father of four children, was puzzled. "How did my birth certificate get marked as he asked. CONTRASTS FAITHS The Rev.

Mr. Cermak said that a mature faith lives to prove God and witness to His saving power for others. He contrasted this with childish faith, which he said lives for itself alone and is totally self-centered and self-inflicted. To live the human life, the clergyman said, is to sin and err but to know love and express love is to live in the Christian faith. "This was Paul's lasting contribution to the Christian Community of Faith: that though we sin and fall short, we are not eliminated from either the love of God or, knowing love" he continued.

"He took his theme from Jesus who could love any kind of people and taught his followers to do so by his preaching and healing ministry." The speaker quoted Dr. Howard Thurman, former dean of the chapel at Boston University, Boston, who said, "To love another person is to deal totally with them." EXPLAINS LOVING The Rev. Mr. Cermak said that to be loved by another is to -be totally forgiven, helped, lifted up, fed and "dealt with." "This is the 'good news' of the gospel we are called to commit ourselves to, so that we may 'live' in every sense of the word. In a world crying out 'Why live at the Christian answers back, 'Because He lived and first loved us," we too, have a reason for life we call 'good The Lenten luncheons are being sponsored by the Lansing Area Council of Churches and the Christian Emphasis Committee of the YMCA.

The speaker next Friday will be the Rev. David L. Voorhees, chaplain for the Council of Churches. Mayer William H. Taylor of Pontiac, Municipal League President, Talks With Gov.

Milliken, Lansing Mayor Murninghan. Cities to Share in Recreation Bond Funds, Says Milliken off even the most detailed and verified reports as natural phenomenon of some sort. Neff also referred to the Condon Report on UFOs, released by a University of Colorado research team last year, as a "whitewash job." "It is a very egotistic attitude for people to assume that we aie the only life in the universe," he "I cannot believe that we on this globe could be the" only living creatures in existence." Neff, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, has been interested in UFOs for years, and since 1966 has been working full time as a lecturer and investigator of these aerial phenomenon. Previous to 1966, he said he devoted as much time as he could to the subject. He is a member of the National Investigations Commit-t on Aerial Phenomenon, which has 12,000 members, world-wide, and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, with 8,000 members, and has also conducted a weekly radio show in Cleveland on UFOs.

Neff said he does not know who "they" are, but does not believe they are natural phenomena or secret Air Force experiments. "If the Air Force is experimenting on anything so secret, then we have no right to be spending billions of dollars at Cape Kennedy," he said. He is against the closed mind can't exist of many people and said he would like to see a joint study by the United Nations and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that would get to the truth of the matter. Neff said he is fond of a story which appeared in national magazines entailing a hypothetical discussion between intellectuals of the deep seas as to the nature of strange creatures (divers and submarines) which entered their world for frequent, short periods. There could not be life above the water, the intellectuals said, there is too much oxygen and the light would kill them.

They must be light refractions in the water. Neff will give an illustrated lecture at 8 p.m. tonight at West Junior High School Auditorium. Hearing Demanded In Death Donald E. Hatcher, 32, of 529 Florence, Thursday demanded examination in Municipal Court on an open charge of murder.

Judge Charles N. Murphy or-murder in connection with the dered Hatcher, accused of death of his wife, Penelope Ann Hatcher, 26, confined to the county jail until examination Feb. 27. He did not set bail. City police found Mrs.

Hatcher's body, in her bed Wednesday. Hatcher was arraigned immediately after his release from Ingham Medical Hospi-taL Police took him there from his home for treatment of cut wrists. By STAN MORGAN Stale Journal Staff Writer Look! Up in the sky! Is it a weather balloon, a temperature inversion, swamp gas, or a flying saucer? Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) appear in history as far back as EzekiaFs "wheel" in the Bible and an ancient Egyptian, account of a fleet of airships passing over a city. There is even a late 18th century report from an American farmer named Alexander Hamilton (not the statesman) who reported a large airship and towns throughout the state participated Wednesday and Thursday. POINTS TO FORMULA "I recognize, and I can appreciate," he said, "the feeling that the formula should not be detrimental to development of recreational facilities in out-state Michigan facilities which are used by people from throughout the state." One way or another," he said, "urban recreational facilities must be made available." But, he said, a task force he ton-Hudson, Pinckney-Britton, Carson i y-Beaverton, Wil-liamston-Caseville, Corun a-Cement City, Charlotte-Benton, Nashville Chatham, Morrice-Clio, DeWitt-Lake Orion, Du-rand-Houghton, Eaton Rapids-Walled Lake, Elsie-Union City Olivet-Estral Beach.

Fowler-Schoolcraft, Fowler-ville-Potterville, Mason-G 1 a d-stone, Grand Ledge-Romeo, Howell-Lathrup Village, Hub-bardston-Montague, Ionia-Pe-toskey, Ithaca-Middleville, Mulliken-Kalkaska, a i s-burg-Elkton, Leslie-Lexington, Owosso-Livonia, Lyons-Tekon-sha, Stockbridge-M endon, Ovid-Perry, Sunfield-Paw Paw, Vermontville-Peck, Shepherd-Petersburg, Wood and Westphalia-White Pigeon. Service With a Smile Anyway, Stimson went to the Michigan Department of Health, vital statistics division, and showed them his navy discharge papers and other documents. "Change that designation from female to male," he asked. Health Department officials they could not change the records until he obtained a baptismal certificate and an affidavit from a person who claimed he knew Stimson for 25 years. Stimson was perplexed, but he remembered that his uncle was a minister who had baptized him many years ago.

John obtained an affidavit from his uncle but his uncle was unable to find the baptismal certificate. Health officials said they could not accept the evidence. They suggested Stimson write to Pittsburg, and obtain a certificate from the U.S. Census Bureau stating that his name appeared on the 1930 census. John supressed his anger, took a deep breath and wrote the letter to Pittsburg, Kan.

About five weeks after the original application for a passport, John received a letter from Pittsburg, which said his name did not appear on the 1930 census. John gave up. "All I could figure," John said, "Was that my wife and the other members of the Elks Lodge would wave good-bye to me at the airport on March 15. I was depressed." By DAVE HANSON State Journal Staff Writer Gov. William G.

Milliken told the members of the Michigan Municipal League here Thursday that cities can expect a share of the $100 million in recreation bonds approved by state voters last November that will "reflect my concern for the cities, and for the preservation of natural resources." Milliken spoke at a noon luncheon Thursday during the annual legislative conference of the league in Lansing. More than 600 officials from cities Duane R. Russell Aims For School Board Job Lansing, Monroe Mayors in Swap Duane R. Russell, director of training for the Michigan Department of State, today announced his candidacy for a six-year term on the Lansing School District Board of Education. Three six-year posts on the board will be filled in an April 7 election.

Russell, 42, is a native of Lansing who serves on both the city public service and urban redevelopment boards. He attended Lansing public schools, was graduated from Sexton High School and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Michigan State University. Russell, who holds a junior college teaching certificate, is a past president of the Mt. Hope PTA and a member of the Walter French PTA. He also is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, the YMCA, Pilgrim Congregational Church, and several Masonic organizations.

Russell, and his wife, JoAnn, The mayors of Lansing and Monroe will trade places for a day on May 19 for the annual "Mayors Exchange Day" of Michigan. Week. The pairings were determined Thursday afternoon at a drawing during the Michigan Municipal League's legislative conference at the Jack Tar Hotel. Mayor Murninghan drew Monroe, while Mayor Gordon L. Thomas of East Lansing drew Pontiac.

Other pairings involved mayors of cities and towns in the Lansing area include: Webber-ville-Alanson, Albion-Melvin-dale, St. Louis-Allegan, Alma-Marshall, Portland-Belding, Mt. Pleasant-Big Rapids, Maple Rapids-BIoomingdale, Breckenridge-Climax, Brigh To the Rescue But, Mrs. Stimson didn't give up. She remembered-that she was a friend of a secretary to a state senator.

She called the senator's secretary and told her the whole story. The secretary told the senator and the senator made one telephone call to the State Health Dept. Two days later, John received a passport and a new birth certificate. What's more, the "new" birth certificate was no different than the old one, except that the designation "female" was crossed out and above it was written "male." John and all his friends tried hard to laugh at the whole episode but, somehow, the commentary on how we live in an awful maze of government red tape and bureaucracy made the story far more disturbing than funny..