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Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 18

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B-2 THE STATE JOURNAL June 7, 1972 Wants Teaching Staff to Reflect Racial Population LSEA Makes Minority Proposals to Schools acai, s4ned ectf64. be involved in Phase One of the school board's proposed plan next fall, the LSEA recommended the following action That teachers be transferred to these schools on a voluntary basis to achieve staff desegregation. hat teachers be given preference to remain in their current school at the same a Olin Horn CHARLOTTE Olin Horn. 76, of 3956 S. Ionia Road, Ka-lamo Township, died Tuesday at his home as a result of a heart attack.

He is survivied by a sister, Mrs. Beulah 1). Jones of Bath. Services will held Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Bulkhead Funeral Chapel here.

Andrew Fox PEWAMO Funeral services for Andrew Fox, 80, of 329 N. State, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the St. Joseph Catholic Church, Pe-wamo. Mr.

Fox died Monday, at a Grand Rapids veterans hospital. He was a lifelong Pewamo resident and a member of the Fowler VFW. Surviving are his wife, Amelia, two sons, James of Gladwin and Leonard of Portland; four daughters, Mrs. Jeanette Perleberg of Chippewa Lake, Mrs. Joan Pline of Pewamo, Mrs.

Yvonne Robinson of Lyons, Mrs. Diane Stoakes of Ionia; a brother, Theodore of Lansing, and a sister. Rosary will be said at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. today at the Goerge Chapel of the Osgood Funeral Home, Fowler.

Carrie Sheldon Mrs. Carrie Sheldon of 1107 Robbins Road, died In a local nursing home today. Arrangements are by the Jessen Funeral Home. desegregation be accomplished through the voluntary transfer of teachers from one building to another or from one grade level to another in the same school. THE TEACHER group cited results of a recent LSEA survey to support its claim that voluntary transfers could result in desegregated staffs.

In that survey, 448 of the 1,169 teachers responding said they were willing to transfer to another school to achieve a desegregated staff and 567 said they were willing to change their current teaching assignments within the building where they presently work to help realize that goal. The LSEA proposals followed last Thursday's presen-ta i of a comprehensive four-year student desegregation plan by the Lansing Board of Education. That plan will be discussed during a 7:30 p.m. public hearing today in the Gardner Junior High School auditorium. CONCERNING THOSE elementary teachers who would 2 Robbers Lansing police reported two armed robberies and one attempt in the city overnight.

Terrell Husband told police two men, one armed with a pistol, took $60 from him at Butler and Kalamazoo Tuesday night. BARRY T. Sharpe reported another pair of hold-up men operating around Butler and William. One of them had a knife and demanded his wallet. Police did not know how much money was taken.

By JUDITH BROWN State Journal Writer The Lansing School District teaching staff should reflect the overall student minority population, the Lansing Schools Education Association (LSEA) board urged Tuesday. The proposals to Supt. I.Carl Candoli also urged that each building staff should be balanced in terms of race and experience and that at least two minority teachers should be assigned in each school. THE RECOMMENDATIONS, approved Monday by the 12-m ember executive board, were initially drafted by a special LSEA subcommittee which has been studying the educational implications of desegregation since last January. Currently, the district's teaching and administrative work force is composed of slightly more than nine per cent minority persons, compared to the district's minority student population of about 21 percent.

The other major LSEA proposal recommended that staff Diamond Reo Fires Three Union Officials Clyde L. Proctor Clyde L. Proctor, 57, former history teacher at Pattengill Junior High School, died Monday of a heart attack at Sunnyvale, where he had been living and teaching in recent years. Surviving are his wife, June; three children; and his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs.

Ixnris Kloepper of San Jose, Calif. Services are to be held Thursday at Oakhill Funexal Home, San Jose. Ardilh L. MeKee LAINGSBURG Mrs. Ardith Louise McKee, 41, of 9486 Round Lake Road, died Tuesday at her home.

She is survived by her husband, Eugene; two sons, Orion and Gordon; and two daughters, Lois Jean and Linda Kay, all at home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orion 1 1, Laingsburg; a grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Montague, Ovid; and three brothers, Burton Bohnett of Haslett, and Jerry and Benny Bohnett of Laingsburg. Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m.

at the McDougall Funeral Home, Laingsburg. Kenneth M. Bodell ONONDAGA Services for Kenneth M. Bodell, 11, who died Sunday in a Lansing hospital after he was struck by a train, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Patience-Mont-gomery-Luecht Funeral Home, Leslie.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kay Bodell; two sisters, Deborah and Karen; two brothers, Russell and Ronald, all at home; and his grandparents, Mrs. Cora Harris of Albion and Mr. and Mrs.

Dale Bodell of Onondaga. Etta M. Wiles HOWELL Services for Mrs. Etta M. Wiles, 73, of 1035 Pinckney Road, will be held at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Lamb Funeral Home. Mrs. Wiles, a longtime Howell resident, died Monday at a local hospital. Surviving are a son, Albert of Howell; and three daughters, Mrs. Shirley Keesler of Morrice, Mrs.

Beatrice Wher-ley of Howell and Mrs. Doro-thv Franks of Marble Head, Ohio. Mable G. Raymer HOWELL Services for Mrs. Mable G.

Raymer, 53, formerly of Howell, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Church. Mrs. Raymer, who had been living at Livonia, died Monday at a Northville hospital.

Surviving are her husband, Leo; three sons, Thomas and Robert of Farmington and John at home; and a daughter, Jean, also at home. Rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lamb Funexal Home. Three union officials at Diamond Reo Trucks, Inc. including the president of UAW Local 650 were fired by the company Tuesday.

Company officials said the firings were "for just cause," Red Cedar Course Vandalized City parks and recreation officials reported nearly $1,000 damage to trees on the Red Cedar golf course Tuesday. Director Charles G. Hayden said the golf course on Lansing's east side has been the target of vicious vandalism since it opened May 28. HE ALSO said 29 flags, 20 poles, lengths of hose, tee markers, and sprinklers have been stolen. Tuesday some metal tables at the clubhouse were found bent and twisted, lawn seats broken, and the cups on the greens filled with gravel.

He said four trees were damaged in the latest incident. orame grade level if that grade is designated for that building. THAT TEACHERS, as Individuals or as a team, be given preference to move to the schools where students from their present buildings would lie transferred under the board's plan. That teachers be permitted to continue at their current grade level assignments wherever possible. Get $60 The attempted robbery was reported by Ford McKrill who told police two youths in their early teens tried to rob him in the 200 block of S.

Logan. One of the youngsters was armed with a shotgun, he said. Police reported 180 calls for service in the past 24 hours including five burglaries, and six stolen cars. There was one larceny and three assaults reported. Merits Your Confidence 8 THOMAS E.

HOFFMEYER E. Hoffmeyer LANSING EAST LANSING MASON Donald D. Carpenter Services for Donald D. Carpenter, 57, of 2855 Coleman who died Monday in a local hospital, will be at 1 p.m. at the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel.

Mr. Carpenter had been a life resident of Lansing and vicinity and was employed at Simon Iron and Steel for 40 years. He was a member of the Industrial Executives Club and a member of the Bailey Lake Club. Survivors include his wife, Agnes; a son, Kenneth of Owosso: a daughter, Mrs. Paul (Sally) Bennett of Lansing; his mother, Mrs.

Nancy Carpenter of East Lansing; three brothers, Roy and Frank, both of Lansing, and Bob of Laings-burg; three sisters, Mrs. Edna Baines of East Lansing, Mrs. Edith Ryckman of Lansing, and Mrs. Hazel Peterman of East Lansing. Owen T.

Smith Services for Owen T. Smith, 50, of 4411 Cherry Hill Okemos, who died Saturday in a local hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Detroit. Mr.

Smith, general staff supervisor-regulatory matters with Michigan Bell Telephone in Lansing for the past four years, had been employed by the company for 31 years. Survivors include his wife, Gertrude and four daughters, Maureen. Shelagh, Kathleen, all of Okemos. and Mrs. Michael (Patricia) Giles of West-land.

Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Sajewski Funeral Home, Detroit. Helen Joseph Mrs. Helen Joseph, 58, of Toledo, Ohio, formerly of Lansing, died Tuesday in a Toledo hospital. Survivors include her husband, Michael a son, James Hipkiss of North Carolina, five stepchildren, Barbara Wilson, Delores Bannan, Tom and Dick Joseph and Jean Hayes, all of Lansing, and a brother.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the St. Elias Syrian Orthodox Church. The Worth Clegg Funeral Home in Toledo is in charge of arrangements. Lei no M.

Maki Services for Leino M. Maki, 67, of 6088 Park Lane Bath, who died Sunday in Clinton County, will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. Mr. Maki had been a Lansing area resident for 20 years and was formerly employed at Reo Motors.

Survivors include his sister, Mrs. Roy Johnson of Lakeland, and a brother, Wayne of Embarrass, Minn. Delia F. Templet Services for Mrs. Delia F.

Templet, 72, of 1810 Todd who died Tuesday in a Howell hospital, will be Friday in Bi-loxi, Miss. Mrs. Templet had been a resident of Lansing for three years. Survivors include a son, Joseph Templet of Lansing, and two daughters. The Palmer-Bush Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements.

Joaquin Salazar Joaquin Salazar, 88, of 823 W. Grand River died Tuesday at a local hospital. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Mary Fernandez of Lansing. The body is at Lavey Funeral Home.

Fin ma A. Stoll Mrs. Emma A. Stoll, 70, of 539 Glenmore, East Lansing, died Tuesday at a local hospital. The body is at Estes-Lead-ley Funeral Home.

Charlie C. Hyatt Charlie Hyatt, 82, of 808 Vine, died Tuesday at a local hospital. The body is at Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. Virginia Snyder Mrs. Virginia Snyder, 59, of 1820 Lyons died Tuesday at her residence.

The body is at Gorsline-Runciman East Chapel, East Lansing. William Baiiliman William Baughman of Royal Oak, formerly of Lansing, died Tuesday at his home. The body is at Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. 1 iw OHfjo fv I tgmtimm COMPANY KENNETH L. PREAD-M ORE, 50, Ingham County Sheriff since 1961, has announced he will be a candidate for re-election on the Republican ticket.

Former president the Michigan Sheriff Association and a member of the sheriff's department for 24 years, he is a member of the governor's council on drug abuse and criminal Justice. Guilty Concluded from Pg. B-l saw flames coming from the building. Bengtson said there was no testimony offered about a possible motive for the blaze. BOTH BROTHERS at one time attended Eastern High School, but had dropped out.

but declined to elaborate. A meeting was scheduled for today where the company was presumably going to give specific reasons for the dismissals. UNION SPOKESMEN said the firings were "unjustified" and vowed to contest them "with all our resources." Those fired were: Roger D. Foster, local president; Douglas E. Sleep, production committeeman; and Donald K.

Gmazel, chairman of the office workers' bargaining committee. Mildred C. Johnson, vice president of the company, this morning said the firings were "nothing personal and nothing against the union. "THEY WERE just in line with proper management." James H. Ramey, UAW international representative, said the firings were "irresponsible" and predicted the union would fight the dismissals as long as necessary.

"These men are good employes and good union men," Ramey said. "We're not going to just stand by." GERANIUMS (ALL COLORS) Largs 4" Potted Each BARNES AVENUE FLORAL 725 W. Barnet 485-5431 OPEN EVENINGS SUNDAYS Open Wed. Thurs. till 9 P.M.

Deansgate James Foxx Ltd. These are all high quality suits that sold for as high as $1 70.00. Values River, East Lansing Alterations at Cost 1 W5 JAR VIS ACKES RETIREMENT Facility is now in operation. Patients are being received in its Nursing Facilities. Residents are also being received in the Apartment Rooms.

For Information Call: JAKVIS ACHES COOPERATIVE IXC. PHONE: 646-3041 The Loyalty And Good Will Of The Families We Serve Are Our Greatest Assets Father's Day June 18 MEN'S FASHION CLOTHING 305 E. Grand River. East Lansing MM COJEAISAKKO from the former Ray Leffler Custom Shop A History of Service Which GLEN DUNN Glen Dunn Thomas H. Freeman J.

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Gorslne DRESS TROUSERS $088 $11788 JD 2 PAIR FOR II LANSING CHAPEL: 900 EAST MICHIGAN AVENUE EAST CHAPEL: 1 730 EAST GRAND RIVER BALL-DUNN CHAPEL: 621 SOUTH JEFFERSON 305 E. Grand All Sales Final Master Charge BankAmericard i.

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