Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 17

Ivietro iiews LANSING STATE JOURNAL Feb. 6, 1983 3B Metro Roundup Cooley names three Meeting for deaf set All Eatnn PsmiHc QUnrnmr A town meeting to discuss the concerns, problems and aspirations of the. deaf and hearing impaired has been set for 7 p.m., Feb. 14, by the state Department of Labor's division of deaf and deafened. The meeting will be at the Department of Public Health, Manty conference room, 3500 N.

Logan St. It is one of a series of eight meetings being held across the state. was one of three new directors elected to the Cooley Law School Board recently. Lawrence P. Nolan was elected to a one-year term.

Nolan is a Cooley graduate and is president of the Cooley Lawyers' Credit Union Board. Also elected: Michigan Appeals Court Judge Richard M. Maher to a three-year term; and U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin F. Gibson, a former Cooley professor, to a three-year term.

Kruger wife's loneliness is long-distance The wife of Lansing's marathon canoeist Verlen Kruger said Thursday her husband will attend a sporting goods trade fair in Chicago a week from today before beginning the. last leg of his canoe trip. Kruger and his son-in-law, Steven G. Lan-T dick, have less than 6,000 miles to go in their one-man canoes as they prepare for their assault on the mighty Colorado River, across State Roundup Re sister stands mute Tennis star charged ftM 2z sm. KJ ii i.

ii vifyi-'iiry-TiiWiiMiMM i In: the Great Divide, north through Canada and down through the Upper Peninsula to Lansing, completing a journey that began in May 1980. DETROIT (AP) A 21-year-old Dearborn man stood mute Friday at his arraignment on charges of failing to register for the Selective Service draft. U.S. Magistrate Barbara K. Hackett entered a plea of innocent to the charge for Daniel A.

Rutt, a student at Hope College in Holland, Mich. Rutt was indicted Jan. 20 by a federal grand jury for violation of Presidential Proclamation 4771 of July 1980 and with violation of federal regulations. He was the first Michigan resident indicted for draft resistance since the Vietnam War. He faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Hackett scheduled a pretrial conference for Feb. 10, but set no trial date. Rutt was released on $1,000 personal recognizance bond. JENNY KRUGER said communication with her husband was sparse over the last month as the pair rounded the Baja Peninsula and entered the Bay of California. cniH chp lacf WARREN (AP) Former tennis star Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz faces charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with an alleged drunken driving accident, Warren police said.

Bartkowicz, 33, was charged Friday and is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday. She was the driver of a car that struck a 60-year-old Detroit man at an intersection in suburban Warren at 1 a.m. Monday. John Skrzypinski died 12 hours later of injuries suffered in the accident. The victim apparently was helping two Sterling Heights women put gasoline in their car when the accident occurred, said Warren police Lt.

John Welch. Bartkowicz won 17 junior and doubles titles between 1960 and 1967 and was rated one of the top 10 women tennis players. She faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. WARMING UP Emmett Tansil (left), 9, and Rey Revilla, 7, warm their hands by the wood fire at the 4-H winter jubilee at Grand River Park in Delhi Township Staff Photos by BRUCE CORNELIUS fomtt DoUs off iFestJ iFoir 4-IH1 to make the day worthwhile. Snow's poor showing this winter has hurt more than just businesses.

It has put a damper on many groups winter frolick- It wasn't quite a winter wonderland, but the 50 to 60 people who attended tlje January-turned-February Jubilee Saturday found enough ice and cold Tot dies in rescue try PONTIAC (AP) A 3-year-old girt who stayed behind to look for her dog died when a fire swept through her Avon Township home, authorities said. The body of Shelley Konkel was identified Friday by officials at the Oakland County Morgue. Rosemary Konkel, the child's mother, escaped from the house with another daughter, Michelle, 2, shortly after the fire broke out at 10 a.m. Friday, authorities said. The mother was in serious condition at Crittendon Hospital with second-and third-degree burns to her face and hands.

Michelle was treated and heard from Kruger on Kruger Wednesday, when he called from San Filippe, Mexico, before departing for Yuma, From Yuma, Kruger and Landick will travel to San Diego to catch a flight to Chicago for the three-day trade fair, then return to Yuma to continue their journey. She said the canoeists reported facing no major difficulties. "They weren't bothered too much by the last of those storms in California because the mountains on Baja Peninsula blocked them from the east side where Verlen and Steve are," she said. "THEY'RE OFF the ocean and making real good time paddling night and day and sleeping only two or three hours," she said. Kruger said her husband is still planning on a Nov.

30 arrival date in Lansing. "They've been getting along, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone or other wives," she said. "There's too many responsibilities and, just from being alone, you know, I'll be glad when it's all done." By Staff Writer James A. Harris Claim case delayed: Oral arguments in Ingham County's suit to recover more than $2.5 million in Medicaid payments it claims the state owes it are scheduled to be heard by Circuit Judge Carolyn Stell on March 7. The arguments were to have been heard Jan.

26, but were postponed. In the suit Ingham County contends the state improperly classified the county's new medical care facility, which opened in October, 1978, and has been underpaying the county for Medicaid. The county is arguing that it does not owe the state $653,000 in "maintenance of effort" payments the state insists must be paid. Stell continued a temporary restraining order imposed by then-sitting Judge Ray Hotchkiss that prevents the state from withholding funds from the county to offset the maintenance of effort funds until the case is decided. 7 Officer acquitted PORT HURON (AP) A St.

Clair County jury deliberated only a few minutes before finding a former Port Huron police officer innocent of willfully neglecting his duty in connection with an alleged gambling ring. The district court verdict Friday cleared John Bowns, 41, of charges stemming from an investigation by the state attorney general's office into an alleged gambling ring at a city tavern. Bowns, an 18-year veteran of the city police force, was charged with frequenting the Midway Tavern in Port Huron after hours. Officials said open gambling was conducted at the tavern and that Bowns allegedly participated in poker games. Despite the jury verdict, Port Huron Police Chief Joseph Eastwood said Bowns will not be reinstated.

A union grievance is still pending in which Bowns is seeking $30,000 in back pay and benefits. He was suspended Feb. 10, 1982, and fired about a month later. Lottery ing. The Ingham County 4-H Youth Program's third annual January Jubilee at Grand River Park in Delhi Township had to be postponed until February.

Even then, organizers did not get the three inches of snow they were counting on. CYNTHIA BURLESON MARK, an extension 4-H youth agent and event organizer, said Friday the postponed jubilee would be held Saturday no matter what. And that it was. The attendance was about a fifth of previous years', she said, and some of the day's events had to be canceled. But children and adults managed to have a good time.

Following an ice rescue demonstration and snowball fights, ice skaters some with and without skates and would-be hockey players alternately slid around on the frozen pond and huddled around a small fire. TO 8-YEAR-OLD Tiffany Threadgould, of Mason, who was dragging her toboggan heading up the hill to the toboggan run, this year's event wasn't hurt by the lack of snow. "I go skating and then I go tobogganing," she giggled as she was joined by others ready to brace the hill. "I'm having fun." The Ingham County 4-H Youth Program organizes the jubilee as a family day for 4-H members, leaders and their families, Mark said. Friday's daily number: 312 Friday's Daily-4: 7324 Saturday's dairy number: 770 Saturday's Daily-4: 1375 I'm- ti Vital Statistics Deaths YOUTHFUL SKATER Ken Zelenka helps his 3-year-old son Sean get his footing on the ice pond.

Computer to keep library records Portland stores hit by thieves PORTLAND Thieves broke into Lear market and Discount, adjacent businesses at 1455 and 1465 E. Grand River early Saturday morning and stole cash and lottery Portland police said the businesses were entered through roof vents. About $100 in cash was taken from Discount, police said. The safe at Lear was pried open, and an undetermined amount of cash was taken along with the lottery ticket boxes, police added. Officers said the thieves, possibly three, apparently left the scene on foot and escaped a vehicle on eastbound 1-96.

Officers, who arrived at 5:20 a.m., used a State Police tracking dog to follow the trail to a railroad crossing at 1-96 where they found several hundred dollars worth of lottery tickets. G. Ledge pastor dies The Rev. Patrick A. Jackson, pastor of St.

Michaels Parish, Grand Ledge, died Friday of a heart attack while visiting relatives in California. He was 46. Jackson, a Detroit native, was appointed pastor of St. Michaels in 1980. Previously, he was pastor at St.

Patricks Parish, Whitmore Lake, and associate pastor at St. Thomas Parish, Ann Arbor. Jackson is survived by his parents, Richard and Geraldine Jackson, of Mt. Clemens, six brothers and a sister. Arrangements are by Holihan Funeral Home, Grand Ledge.

Bible Church, died Friday. Services 11:30 a.m. Monday at the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. LAMOREAUX, ELETHEA 90, 4261 Holt Road, died Friday. Services 2 p.m.

Monday at the Holt United Methodist Church. Arrangements by the Estes-Leadley Holt Chapel. LOGAN, WILLIAM 84, 6422 W. Saginaw Grand Ledge, Fisher Body retiree, died Friday. Services 1 p.m.

Tuesday at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. MIXTER, HERBERT, 84, of Englewood, Oldsmobile retiree, died Jan. 14. Burial will be in Clarence Township Cemetery, Duck Lake. OPDYKE, DAVID 40, 3915 Wildwood died Friday.

Arrangements by the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. NEWCOMB, CULLEN 82, of Phoenix, died Friday. Arrangements by the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. SHAW, ROBERT LINN, of Tivoli, Texas, died Friday. Arrangements by Gorsline-Runciman East Chapel, East Lansing.

TIDD, ETHEL V. (SAWDY) (DURHAM), 88, of St. Johns, died Saturday. Services 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Osgood Funeral Home.

"The library is not interested in getting overdue fees, but we are interested in getting our books back," said Robert Paulson, part-time public relations specialist. "We would much rather have the books than the 10 cents." The computer is hooked up to the Lansing Community College library computer. LCC's library and the Lansing School District's will be able to find out if a book is available at another location, including the Jolly-Cedar Branch and Bookmobile. "Like all of these systems, we are going to have some bugs that are going to have to be worked out, but once we get it going and really organized, it will be a help to everyone." The public library is open Monday through Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, from 9:30 a.m.

until 5:30 p.m.; and Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The main library is at 401 South Capitol Ave. About 58,000 patrons are registered with the district's library. Concluded from Page 1 will need a new card.

"It's going to give us a better hold on our collection (which includes films, books, magazines, albums and art works) as to where things are," said Jacquie Paul, circulation supervisor. The computer will tell librarians If the book you want is checked out and who has it. When a book is expected back. Whether someone else is waiting for the book you brought back. If you owe a fine and how much.

If the book you want stored is on a shelf. Which books or materials get used frequently and which ones sit idle for a long time. "WHEN WE go to order new things, we will know what areas are the most popular," Paul said. "There is not much point in buying 10 opera albums if we only loaned two in a year," she said. CURTIS, BLANCHE, 82, of 344 N.

Ann Fowlerville, died Friday. Services 11 a.m. Monday at Liverance Funeral Home. FINOCCHIO, MARK 24, 1556 Haslett Road, East Lansing, Paul Automotive employee, died Friday in a car accident. Services 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Arrangements by the Palmer-Bush Funeral Home. GALVIN, MARY 87, of Traverse City, formerly of Ok-emos, died Friday. Services 1 p.m.

Monday at the Hibbard Funeral Chapel, Traverse City. GORDON, EVELYN 75, 310 S. Foster, former secretary for the State Liquor Control Commission, died Friday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel.

HASKIN, LOU ANN (FREDRICKS), 36, 4320 Stillwell formerly a nurse at Lansing General Hospital, died Friday. Services 2 p.m. Monday at the Lucas Rehoboth Reform Church. Arrangements by Burkholder Funeral Home in McBain. HEINRITZ, ERVIN 77, of Grand Ledge, died Saturday.

Arrangements by the Palmer-Bush Funeral Home. HOISINGTON, JEAN 60, of Lansing, died Saturday. Services 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. JACKSON, FR.

PATRICK 46, 405 Edward Grand Ledge, pastor of St. Michaels Church, died Friday in Escon-dido, Cal. Arrangements by Holihan Funeral Home, Grand Ledge. JOHNSON, REV. GLENFRED of Lansing, pastor of Walker Memorial piroaesttBinig sale if WODC-W VanGLIDER, NANCY, 46, of 1024 Grenoble Circle, Ethan Allen Furniture Galleries employee, died Friday.

Services 2:30 p.m. Monday at Trinity United Methodist Church. VanHORN, CHRISTINA (SNOW), 92, of Nashville, died Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Monday at Vogt Funeral Home.

building within Lansing, in which it will locate a new studio and production and technical facilities, as well as sales and business offices." FOR YEARS, WILX has openly said it will move to Lansing. Indeed, it now keeps most of its newspeople and some of its salesmen in a satelite office here. And it has received a waiver allowing it to call itself "WILX, Lansing." But moving the main studio will still require FCC approval. WFSL protested the idea of including the move in an ordinary sales agreement. "The parties have not hesitated to flaunt cavalierly their plans to move the station," the WFSL protest says.

"Instead, they have tossed the commission's authority aside for the moment, in order to propel their pyrrhic transaction forward." WFSL GENERAL MANAGER Tom Jones granted that the FCC might simply split the question. It could approve the sale, but hold the studio issue until later. "We want to make sure people realize now that we object to the move," Jones said. "We don't want someone to say, You didn't say anything before." WILX IS CURRENTLY owned by Figgie, a Virginia holding company that was previously named ATO. The company owns such disparate things as a sprinkler firm and Rawlings sporting goods.

Adams owns TV stations in Traverse City (with a Sault St. Marie sattelite); Farmington, N.M.; and Colorado Springs, Colo. He also has two radio stations in Grand Rapids and others in St. Louis, and Wood River, 111. By MIKE HUGHES Staff Writer The sale of WILX-TV has hit an obstacle.

A competitor has filed a protest, because of the new owner's plan to move the studios from Jackson to Lansing. ON OCT. 20, the station (Channel 10) was sold for $20.5 million to Stephen Adams, a Minneapolis man who owns three smaller TV stations and four radio stations. But the sale won't take effect unless the Federal Communications Commission approves. And now WFSL (Channel 47) has filed a complaint.

The WFSL protest involves a variety of technical points, but it centers on one key part of the sales, agreement. It says that within two years, Adams must "lease, purchase or construct a Births, Page 6B Marriage licenses, 5B.