Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 10

B-2 THE STATE JOURNAL Oct. 1 0. 1 979 Trial in girl's death begins Judge permits testimony No leads in break-in Leaf pickup slated Police say they have no leads in connection with a break-in at an East Lansing store which resulted in the loss of about $4,000 worth of clothing. Redwood and Ross, 205 E. Grand River, was broken into late Sunday night or early Monday morning, East Lansing police said.

An unknown number of burglars entered the store through a rear window and took a number of suits, coats and sweaters. Autumn leaves have begun to fall, but East Lansing is ready. The city will provide leaf pickup during four weeks in October and November. Leaves must be in plastic bags and at the curb by 7:30 a.m. the day of pickup.

The schedule for west of Abbott Road: Oct. 16, 23, 30 and Nov. 6. East of Abbott Road: Oct. 19, 26, Nov.

2 and 9. i a closed trial, said he was hot convinced "the defendant can't receive a fair trial in an open courtroom." After delaying the motion for a change of venue, the judge said the influence on a juror of media coverage of the case can't be known until jury selection begins. Boucher still has to decide if evidence taken from Lee's car can be used Qi the trial. Defense attorneys claim Lee's rights were violated in the search. During that search, a Grand Rapids police officer took samples of red fiber "similar in color" to fibers found on the girl's body.

Lt. Gerald Steele testified that he received a written consent from Lee to search the car three days after the search. BOUCHER ALSO must decide on a motion by defense attorneys to dismiss the case and also a motion to surpress testimony by persons who underwent hypnosis to help their memory. Boucher denied a request to close the pre-trial proceedings and delayed a request for a change of venue until jury selection begins, possibly next week. Lee's defense attorneys wanted to have Mansfield's testimony surpressed because they felt he was acting as an "agent for the police, prosecutor's office or sheriff's department." Mansfield, who said he was extradited to Grand Rapids last May from Tampa, Fla.

to face two sex charges, said he recounted his conversations with Lee to police days after Mansfield and Lee talked about Lee's case. Mansfield said Lee stopped taking to him after Mansfield spoke to police. MANSFIELD SAID Kent County Prosecutor David Satoyer and Assistant Prosecutor William Forsyth promised him that his cooperation would be "considered" when his case came up. Boucher, in denying the request for GRAND RAPIDS (AP) A Kent County circuit judge has allowed testimony by a cellmate who reportedly claims Albert Lee confessed to killing an 11-year-old school crossing guard. Judge George Boucher ruled Tuesday mat Billy Mansfield was not planted in the jail by police to get Lee to talk about the murder.

The ruling came in the first day of the trial of Lee, accused of the Feb. 12 murder of Linda Vanderveeen. The girl, daughter of Grand Rapids' personnel director, was last seen as she was dragged from her crossing guard post. Her body was found later that day in a snowbank about a block from her school. She had been strangled, apparently with her own necklace, police said.

BOUCHER'S RULING was the first in 11 separate motions that must be decided before the trial of the 27-year-old Kentwood man can begin. Senate unit ditches primary bill i 4 ask voters which party's primary they wished to vote in. However, the bill allows voters to cast ballots in any party race, regardless of which one was declared. The committee's action still leaves the primary's future in doubt, since the House so far has refused to accept the Senate primary revision method. Voting for the bill were committee Chairman Sen.

Mitch Irwin, D- Sault Ste. Marie; Sen. John Kelly, D-Detroit, and Sen. John Welborn, R-Kalamazoo. Sen.

Robert Young, R-Saginaw, was against the plan. State lawmakers missed an Oct. 1 deadline, set by the Democratic Na tional Committee to revamp the primary to prevent cross-over voting and keep non-Democrats from voting in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination. BUT IRWIN and other lawmakers insist the Democratic Party would accept late changes designed to preserve the primary. State Democrats now are preparing to select national convention delegates at spring caucuses.

Gov. William Milliken, meanwhile, opposes any effort to "close" the primary to block cross-over voting and has indicated he'd veto a bill scrapping the primary. By The Associated Press A Senate committee today ditched a House passed bill to eliminate Michigan's presidential primary. Instead, the panel approved a bill revising the state's May primary vote to conform with new rules adopted by the national Democratic Party. The plan, adopted on a 3-1 vote by the Municipalities and Elections Committee, now goes to the full Senate.

It is similar to another bill which has passed the Senate once and is now before the House. IT WOULD require poll workers to Workers want KKK bosses out Class property tax bill signed The petition signers also have demanded that no disciplinary action be taken against the six protesters, A Ford spokesman said the company "regrets" the incident and considered it "highly inappropriate." The spokesman, James. S. Spezzano, said the foremen "meant (it) as a joke." The foremen took turns wearing a "white hat" with KKK initials "in front of the hourly workers." Ford has reassigned the supervisor "who took a leadership role in this incident" to another department within the Rouge plant, Spezzano said. No decision on whether to discipline the six protesters of the incident has been made, he said.

"WE DON'T want the company to just transfer them to another department because people won't work for them under these conditions," said Hicks, who identified the two supervisors as foreman Fred Beinke and general foreman Tim McKulen. DEARBORN (AP) Some 1,000 auto workers demanded the firing of two supervisors who reportedly paraded around the Ford Motor Rouge Plant assembly line wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods. The workers signed petitions after a Sept. 27 incident in which workers said two supervisors donned white KKK hoods and walked through the second-floor trim section of the Dearborn Assembly Plant, one of the divisions in the Rouge complex. "They labeled their hoods with the KKK letters just to make sure no one had any doubts of what they meant," said Frank Hicks, a Rouge employee and one of the petition sponsors.

"It doesn't matter whether or not they're formally members of the Klan. It's what the Klan symbolizes hatred, lynchings, church bombings." IN RESPONSE to the supervisors action, two white and four black workers staged a brief walkout on Sept. 28 that shut the assembly line Tor 15 minutes, Hicks said. By The Associated Press Gov. William Milliken has signed into law a pair of bills that establish an equalization-by-class system for property tax assessments and extend the deadline for school districts to conduct millage elections.

Equalization by class, an idea kicked around by state lawmakers for a decade, will likely boost property taxes several hundred dollars for homeowners in cities like Dearborn, where industry has long paid the lion's share. "The bill assures that the tax burden of one class of property will not be shifted to the other classes," said Milliken, who asked for legislative action in his State of the State speech this year. BEGINNING Dec. 31, 1980, local assessors will be required to place all community property in one of six categories: agricultural, developmental, residential, commercial, industrial and timber. Assessments the basis for property taxes for each class must equal 50 percent of the class' market value.

If the assessments are short, a factor will be applied to all property in the class, raising assessments and taxes. Previously, one factor was used for an entire community, sometimes after assessors had already leaned on industry and gone light on homeowners to reach the 50 percent level. THE MILLAGE extension allows school districts to collect money this year from an election held as late as Dec. 15. The normal deadline is Sept.

15, but several financially strapped districts, losers trying for millage earlier, wanted time to try again. Districts winning more millage will have to reimburse counties for the cost of tax bills which must be changed after Dec. 1, Milliken said. DEA THS and FUNERALS House to vote on patients' marijuana use the program, although another measure to pay for the program by boosting state severance taxes on oil and natural gas is still pending in the House. The legislation a two-year extension was amended by Reps.

Michael Busch, R-Saginaw, and Raymond Kehres, D-Monroe, to make sure that state credits are in the form of "two-party" checks, which can only be used to pay utility bills. If the Senate concurs in the House amendment, the bill will go to the governor for his signature. 21-year-old Grand Rapids woman who said she might stop chemotherapy for her leukemia if she couldn't use marijuana to curb her severe nausea. Amendments to link the bill to the controversial cancer treatment Laetrile may be attempted The House also returned to the Senate a bill to continue the state's home heating assistance program for the elderly and poor. The measure, which has no financing yet, could affect 350,000 Michigan households.

The program still lacks the more than $30 million needed for a year of Concluded from page B-l sage of a Senate-passed measure to let cancer chemotherapy patients and victims of glaucoma, a blinding eye disease, use marijuana as medicine. The illegal herb is, believed to ease the nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy treatments and help relieve excess pressure on the eyes of glaucoma sufferers. THE BILL moved quickly through the House Public Health Committee last week, following the testimony of a SHRIVER, HELEN LOUISE 200 Friendship Age 80, died October 9, 1979. Mrs. Shriver was born November 24, 1898 in Locke Township, Mi.

and had been a resident of the Lansing area all of her life. She was a member of the Potter Park United Methodist Church, the Golden Rule Society of the Women's Society, and the D.A.R. She was a charter member of the Lansing Post No. 12 of the American Legion Auxiliary and was a former member of the Auxiliary to the Lansing Lyons Club. She was the widow of Rollo C.

Shriver who died January 3, 1955. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Friday, 1 p.m. at the Gors-line Runciman Lansing Chapel with the Rev. Arthur Turner of the Potter Park United Methodist Church officiating.

Interment will be at the Rowley Cemetery, Williams-ton. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Supreme court ruling sought on abortions HUSTON, JOHNS. 4 Fairfield, Ohio Formerly of Lansing Mr.

Huston, age 53, died in Cincinnati, Ohio on Oct. 8, 1979. He was a life long resident of Lansing, moving to Fairfield, Ohio one year ago. He was General Manager of the General Motors Parts Division of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a member of Lansing Lodge No.

196, B.P.O.E.; and was a Veteran of World War II. Surviving are: wife, Phyllis Blanc-hard Huston of Fairfield, Ohio; 2 sons, Steve and Paul, both of Lansing; 2 daughters, Mrs. Larry (Holly) Steffey and Mrs. Gary (Sydey) Day, both of Lansing; 6 grandchildren; 1 brother, James T. Huston of Lansing; 5 sisters, all of Lansing, Miss Margaret Huston, Mrs.

Helen DeWitt, Mrs. Mary Gill, Mrs. Ruth Miller and Mrs. Phoebe Foster, and many nieces and nephews. Religious services will be conducted at 1:00 P.M.

Friday in the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel, with Rev. Norman E. Myer of the First Presbyterian Church officiating, with interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will begin at the funeral home at 1:00 P.M. Thursday.

HACK, H. ULA 4185 Dallas, Holt Mrs. Hack, age 88, died at a local hospital Oct. 9, 1979. She had been a Holt resident since 1950, having lived in Lansing since 1917.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Holt, member of the 50 plus Club, Ladies Association, Alpha Delta Tau Society. Mrs. Hack was a piano teacher for 50 years. Surviving are: 1 son Clifton of Holt; 1 daughter, Mrs. Victor (Carol) Duch of Braden-ton, 5 grandchildren; 5 great grandchildren.

Religious services will be conducted by Rev. David M. Milbourn at 10:00 A.M. Friday in the First Presbyterian Church in Holt, with interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

The family will meet with friends at the Estes-Leadley Greater Holt Chapel from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. and 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Thursday. Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Holt in Hack's name. Pall Bearers are: Ernest Hunt, Du-ane Studley, Robert Hall, Dr.

Charles Henderson, Frank Brown and Richard Bacon. Honorary Pall Bearers are: Glenn Tdoker, Orville Hitchens, Edwin Clever, Alan Alberts, Buster Schnepp, and Andrew Famsworth. LUCHINI.ELLA WILKINSON 1000 Coolidge East Lansing Mrs. Luchini, age 94, died at the residence on Oct. 9, 1979.

She was born Nov. 7, 1884 in Whitehall, the daughter of John and Mahala (Sayers) Wilkinson. She attended Ferris College and' is a Golden Eagle Alumni of Ferris State University. She married Floyd Luchini in Alma, Michigan in 1919. He preceded her in death in 1978.

She was a member of St. Johns Episcopal Church of Alma. She and her husband moved to Lansing in 1965 where they made their home with Dr. and Mrs. Silvio P.

Fortino. Surviving are 1 daughter, Silena Fortino; 2 grandchildren, Stephen D. Fortino and Ka-thryn E. Barrette; several nieces and nephews. Religious services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday at St. Pauls Episcopal Church with Rev. William S. Hill officiating, with interment in Riverside Cemetery in Michigan. Memorials may be made to the Cardiac Care Unit of E.

W. Sparrow Hospitai or St. Pauls Episcopal Church. Arrangements are by the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. The family will meet with friends at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m.

and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. peal" Sept. 24, indicated his arguments before the Supreme Court would be similar to those used before Warren and the Court of Appeals that Milliken acted improperly in adding money to the state budget by vetoing the Legislature's ban on using funds for abortions. "HE VIOLATED the state Constitu Concluded from page B-l seeking Supreme Court review of the Court of Appeals ruling, hoping the high court will reinstate Warren's decision.

But unlike the appeals court, which must review all cases before it, the Supreme Court can refuse to consider a case and let the lower ruling stand. Milliken repeatedly has vetoed anti-abortion measures approved by the Legislature which so far has not tried to muster the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto. Milliken argues that it is unfair to deny poor women access to legal medical services available to more affluent women. In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1979, the state spent about $3.3 million for 4,000 elective abortions.

tion he's spending money illegally," Zanglin, who filed for "leave to ap- Zanglin said. Salary disclosure bill moves ahead SPILLETTE, RICHARD G. 1114 Edward St. Age 59, died Oct. 10, 1979 at a local hospital.

Complete funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Palmer-Bush Funeral Home. Comp revision slow By The Associated Press A special state task force trying to revise Michigan's workers' compensation laws will resume work next week after a two-month break, its chairman says. But Sen. David Plawecki, D-Dearborn Heights, said Tuesday there was "a complete lack of productivity" "during the recess. The break was called to evaluate proposals on cost-of-living adjustments in benefits to injured workers.

PLAWECKI SAID the 12-member panel of lawmakers and representatives of Gov. William Milliken will tackle cost-of-living clauses and "coordination of benefits" when it resumes work. Coordination refers to reducing workers' compensation if other benefits are paid to the worker. Lawmakers have struggled for years to update Michigan's compensation program, but have never managed to draft a measure acceptable to both labor and business. THE TASK FORCE reached tentative agreement on maximum and minimum benefit levels before it broke in August, but still faces major disagreements on key issues.

Plawecki and House co-chairman Rep. Perry Billiard, D-Ann Arbor, said they hoped to enact a revision, package, by the end of the year. But they predicted the task force may have to limit the issues to reach success. By The Associated Press A bill requiring the state's colleges, universities and school districts to disclose their employees' salaries has cleared the House Judiciary Committee and heads for the full House. Bob Reinshuttle, representing Senate Majority Leader William Faust, the bill's sponsor, told the committee Tuesday that the bill will make education institutions, which receive some tax money, more accountable to the public.

THE LACK of disclosure came out when a professor at Northern Michigan University sought unsuccessfully to learn the salary of the president of Michigan Technological University for bargaining purposes, Reinshuttle said. The Houghton County Board of Commissioners also sought to learn salaries at MTU, and when the board couldn't, it filed a lawsuit. That suit is now pending on appeal in Grand Rapids, Reinshuttle said. PORTER, HARRY W. 622 S.

Waverly Mr. Porter died Oct. 9, 1979. The family is being served by the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing. Chapel.

FUNERALS i 1 1 i1 1 i if ll I ALLEN, FRANCES E. 925 Maycroft Mass of the Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Thurs. at St. Gerard.

The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wed. in the Jessen Funeral Home. NUSBAUM, LUCILLE I. 7060 Eaton Hwy.

Age 72, died at a local hospital Oct. 9, 1979. She had been a resident of the Lansing area for most of her life; was a member of Delta Mills United Methodist Church; and, a former keypunch operator for the Department of Treasury for 20 years retiring in 1969. Mrs. Nusbaum is survived by 1 niece, Mrs.

Janet Lowell of St. Johns; 3 nephews: Dion Kenyon and Larry Kenyon both of Mason, and Gary Kenyon of Charlotte; 2 great nieces; 2 great nephews; 2 great, great nieces and 1 great, great nephews Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thurs. in the Jessen Funeral Home with the Rev. David Henderson of Westminster Presbyterian Church officiating.

Interment will be in Deepdale Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be: Gary Kenyon, Dion Kenyon, Larry Kenyon, Elwood Lowell, James Lowell, and Ernest Lowell. For those wishing contributions may be made ot the Ingham County Cancer Society. DAVIS, CORA MAUDE 3334 Pleasant Grove Age 94, died October 9, 1979 at the residence. She was a former Mulliken resident.

Surviving are eight daughters, Mrs. Emma Compton of Lake Odessa, Mrs. Lillie Hoog-house, Mrs. Dorothy Hois-ington, Mrs. Erma Fox, and Mrs.

Mildred Beech all of Grand Ledge, Mrs. Flossie Backer of Pheo-nix, Mrs. Laura Norris of Mason and Mrs. Pauline Root of Saranac; two sons, Marvin and Earl both of Lansing; 32 grandchildren, 81 great grandchildren, and 13 great great-grandchildren. Services will be 1:30 p.m.

Friday at the Barker-Leik Funeral Home in Mulliken with Rev. Chester Walter officiating. Interment will be in Meadowbrook Cemetery. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Larry Davis, Gerald Root, Spencer Vrooman, Robert Davis, Leslie Sedore, Gary Beech, Eugene Backer and Denny Davis. SMITH, KEVIN W.

Lansing, MI Age 21, died in Memphis, Tenn. hospital Tues. Oct. 9, 1979. Complete funeral arrangements will be announced by the Jessen Funeral Home.

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We've been helping people in these matters for many Gorsline-Runciman Company uireciorsL Rep. Bonior to be released from Bethesda By The Associated Press Rep. David Bonior, is expected to be released from Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland this week. The congressman was hospitalized Thursday after injuring his back while playing soccer, his Washington office said. Meantime, state Sen.

Joseph Mack, D-Ironwood, has been discharged from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio where he had been treated for an undisclosed ailment, a clinic spokesman said. HILL, FLOYD C. 3211 Timber Funeral services will be held Thurs. at 2 p.m. at the Pray Funeral Home in Charlotte.

Rev. Richard Thomas officiating. Interment will be in Deepdale Memorial Park. TRUMBLE, ALBERT H. 5011 Tenny Mr.

Trumble died at a local hospital Oct. 9, 1979. Arrangements will be announced by the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. DEEPDALE Memorial Park FOR BETTER CEMETERY SELECTIONS 4110 Lansing Rd. 322-9475 many years.

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