Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 14

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Mihalik. Paula Blanchard watched Wednesday as a double line of white-gloved troopers escorted Mihalik's flag-draped casket into St. Paul's Lutheran Church. About 1,000 police officers and 500 others joined in the services at the church and burial at Lincoln Township Cemetery. The Rev.

Gerald C. Schroer called Mihalik, an 11-year veteran of the force, an "exemplary trooper." MIHALIK, 37, was gunned down Sunday night after stopping a man who allegedly drove away from a Benton Harbor Township gasoline station without paying for $35.21 worth of fuel. Following a scuffle, the Niles native was killed by shots from his own service revolver, authorities said. Frederick D. Burrell, 27, of Detroit, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in Mihalik's slaying.

Burrell faces a preliminary hearing Sept. 20 before Fifth District Judge Hugh Black. MIHALIK WAS a 1965 graduate of Lakeshore High School and earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Michigan State University in 1969. He is survived by a wife and two sons. Mihalik was the 35th state police officer killed in the line of duty since the department was organized in 1917.

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One is John Christian, lead auditor, who will be responsible for getting the group back together for its one or two meetings each month. Cappelletti said he serves as a resource person for cities such as Lansing that participate in the state's Community Energy Management Program. So far, he has trained small-business auditors in 21 cities and soon will take the program to Ann Arbor and Midland. BUSINESS OWNERS who want the audit can contact Jim Spackman, CEMP coordinator and deputy director of the city's planning division, or the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce. CEMP also has energy audit programs for residential and municipal energy users.

Churches are eligible for the small business audits, said Cappelletti. The goal is to audit at least 30 percent of the small businesses in each city, he said. Already, about 1,300 audits have been conducted statewide, as well as an additional 100 industrial audits. Cappelletti said it's not always easy to convince business owners to get the free audits. "The program is not accepted very well by business people," he said.

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Seventeen energy auditors today finished a three-day training course run by Bob Cappelletti of the Michigan Commerce Energy Administration. By Friday, they will be ready to help Lansing small business owners reduce their costs for heating, air conditioning, lighting and water consumption. The audit is free and business owners are under no obligation to adopt any of the suggested conservation measures. THE AUDITORS spent this morning at the Community Services Building, 300 N. Washington Square.

Yellow audit sheets in hand, they peered up at light fixtures, walked out on the roof to observe air conditioning compressors and descended to the basement to look at a steam conversion unit. They didn't find much wasted energy. Richard B. Lord, associate executive director of Capital Area United Way, which owns the building, explained that UW already has taken steps to remove 1,200 un-needed light fixtures, shut off the heating and cooling systems at night and on weekends and put conference room lights on switches that turn them off after an hour. UW also saves itself and the building's tenants money by shutting off the coolers in drinking fountains and not heating any water.

"Hopefully nobody bathes or shaves in this building," Lord quipped. AFTER COMPLETING their training this afternoon, each of the 17 auditors will be assigned two small businesses that have requested help, the group will meet regularly every two or three weeks to discuss problems other auditors may be able to s5lve. -Cappelletti said the state pays each auditor $7.50 an hour for each, audit, which cannot exceed eight tours per business. Over the course ei a year, there's a $5,000 ceiling on amount an auditor can earn, although he said the one-year contract can be adjusted. 2 He expects eight or nine of the 17 trainees to drop out within the next tfaree months.

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West of Wavery Rd. 321-0935 A federal grand jury on Jan. 30 indicted Kerkman and Fischl on several fraud counts, conspiracy, interstate transportation of stolen goods and income tax violations. Kerkman and Fischl each face nine identical fraud-related charges, Enslen said. Kerkman also is charged with one count of conspiracy to impede the U.S.

Internal Revenue Service from soliciting income tax information, the judge said. Fischl also is charged with filing a false income tax return on behalf of Lake-Link Transportation described by Enslen as a company with the same officers and stockholders as UPSCO. KALAMAZOO (AP) A federal judge let stand all charges against a founder of the Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Co. and dropped one of 11 counts against a co-founder in their trial on fraud-related cnarges. One income-tax violation count against Charles Kerkman was dismissed during a hearing Wednesday, but co-defendant Robert Fischl remained charged on a similar count, U.S.

District Judge Richard Enslen said. Government prosecutors rested their case Tuesday in the fraud trial of Kerkman and Fischl, and lawyers for: the two planned to open their defense today, Enslen said. SHOP MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 10 TO 9 SUNDAY 10 TO 6.