Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 2

A-2 Enquirer and News, March 19, 1982 Weather Local statistics 12 Noon TEMPERATURES FOR THE PAST 24 HOURS 38 12 p.m. 36 43 2 a.m. 36 41 A a.m. 36 40 6 a.m. 35 38 8 a.m.

36 36 10 a.m. 37 Stormy weather upon us 2 p.m. 4 p.m. p.m. p.m.

10 p.m. YESTERDAY WEEK AGO High Low 43 36 51 32 31 20 YEAR AGO STATISTICS FOR THE PAST 24 HOURS HEATING DEGREE DAYS 25.5 PRECIPITATION trace SNOWFALL 0 A heating degree day is determined by adding the high and low temperatures of the day, dividing the sum by two and subtracting that figure from 65. SUNSET TODAY 6:50 p.m. SUNRISE SATURDAY 6:43 a.m. MOONSET SATURDAY 1:50 p.m.

MOONRISE SATURDAY 4:15 a.m. I xxxx ss" NAtlONAl WEAtHfV SfftviCt NOAA U4 Dcp immta State forecasts Central Lower Peninsula: Breezy with 80 percent chance of rain tonight. Chance of thunderstorms. Low in the mid-30s. Breezy with 60 percent chance of rain Saturday.

A few thunderstorms likely. High around 40. Northern Lower Peninsula: Breezy tonight and Saturday with periods of wet snow likely. Low tonight around 30. High Saturday in the lower to mid-30s.

Straits of Mackinac and Upper Peninsula points along Lake Michigan: Breezy tonight with 50 percent chance of snow. Low in the mid-208 to near 30. Breezy Saturday with 60 percent chance of wet snow. High in the lower to mid-30s. Remainder of Upper Peninsula: Breezy with 20 percent chance of light snow tonight and Saturday.

Low tonight in the mid-20s. High Saturday in the lower to mid-30s. It looks like a stormy weekend ahead of us. Rain is expected to begin late today and continue on and off through Monday. There is a chance of thunderstorms tonight and Saturday.

Tonight's low will be in the mid-30s. Saturday's high will be around 40 to the mid-40s. Winds will be northeasterly to easterly at 10-20 mph tonight, increasing to 15-25 mph Saturday. Extended forecast There is a chance of rain, or possibly even snow if it stays cold enough, Sunday and Monday. Tuesday will be partly cloudy.

It will be cool Sunday and Monday but warmer Tuesday. The high will be in the 30s Sunday and Monday and in the 40s Tuesday. Daily lows will be in the 20s. National forecast Snow is expected tonight from the eastern Plains through the northern Great Lakes into northern New England. Showers are forecast from Georgia to the Ohio Valley.

Rain is forecast in the lower Great Lakes and southern New England. Cold weather is forecast for the northern Plains and mild weather for the South. THE MOON LastQu. New First Qu. Full March 17March25 April 1 April 8 ED S3 C0 State temperatures High Low Outlook Alpena 36 32 cloudy Detroit 44 35 cloudy Escanaba 36 24 cloudy Flint 44 36 oudy Grand Rapids 41 35 cloudy Houghton Lake 35 30 oudy Jackson 44 35 cloudy Lansing 42 34 cloudy Muskegon 40 27 oudy Pellston 36 28 cloudy Saginaw 41 33 coudy Sault Ste.

Marie 35 25 cloudy Traverse City 37 30 cloudy Jacksonville 86 66 cloudy Kansas City 52 44 cloudy Las Vegas 55 41 clear Los Angeles 59 42 cloudy Louisville 82 42 cloudy Memphis 81 62 cloudy Miami 85 73 clear Milwaukee 44 32 rain Mpls-St. Paul 40 34 snow Nashville 85 50 cloudy New Orleans 89 72 clear New York 54 36 rain Orlando 90 63 cloudy Phoenix 68 59 cloudy St. Louis 60 45 cloudy St Petersburg-Tampa 83 61 cloudy Salt Lake 51 34 cloudy San Francisco 52 44 cloudy Seattle 52 37 clear Washington 52 43 rain High Yesterday's high Low Yesterday's low Outlook Saturday U.S. temperatures High Low Outlook Anchorage 40 33 cloudy Atlanta to 56 rain Birmingham' 07 57 cloudy Bismarck 27 22 cloudy Boise 49 33 cloudy Boston 50 33 rain Brownsville 92 71 cloudy Buffalo 42 29 rain Chicago 51 35 rain Cincinnati 7 39 rain Cleveland 52 37 rain Columbus 66 37 rain DalFort Worth 85 7 cloudy Denver 49 32 clear Des Moines 44 38 rain Helena 25 20 cloudy Honolulu 79 it clear Houston 82 70 cloudy Indianapolis 69 39 cloudy Road report Most roads throughout Michigan will be wet tonight and Saturday with a few slippery spots likely. Pen fie Id Mourners Continued from A-1 Continued from A-l the same flower arrangement.

On the altar above were five vases, each containing a single red rose, which were donated by the Goal Post, an Allendale restaurant where Cynthia had worked part time as a waitress. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Kenneth Hovingh, pastor of Georgetown Bible Church, where the family had worshipped. "The first thing we deal with in a situation like this are the questions and feelings," Hovingh said. "We're saying, 'Why? Why this family? Why did their lives end this way? can a crime of this enormity be committed with so little evidence? Why are law enforcement officials so The minister told the crowd to "ask the Savior for guidance." Most of the people were calm during the service, but many wept openly as they left the church.

Small groups of high-school-age girls cried uncontrollably as they departed arm in arm. Police said the family members died from numerous gunshot wounds to the head and that the deaths occurred before the fire. Detectives contacted a man who was seen with Mrs. Paulson in a Grand Rapids bar Friday night, but ruled him out as a suspect. Ottawa County Sheriff Robert Dykstra said the man talked to the woman because she was crying.

Dykstra said detectives do not know why the woman was upset. State fire marshals have determined that the fire was deliberately set on the second floor of the house but have refused to say specifically where or how the fire started. Weather Continued from A-l "Some people don't want to leave, and we're not forcing them to go," he said. "It's a voluntary evacuation. Everybody understands the seriousness of it.

If that, water comes through, it's going to flood a 100-square block area. "Some people have lived there all their lives and raised five kids, and they just don't want to leave their homes." One person who refuses to leave is Gene Glass, 52, who lives two streets away from the Maumee River. "You can either stay and fight, or you can run. And I would rather stay and fight," he said. Glass said he is spending his time piling sandbags and watching for looters, keeping a gun on top of his fireplace.

Moses said there had been no incidents of looting and that police and the National Guard are patrolling evacuated areas. Moses estimated that 10,000 people had left their homes by Thursday night, up from a morning estimate of 8,500. Four emergency shelters held 210 people, down from 300 earlier Thursday, according to William Kerr of the American Red Cross. Moses would not say that the Maumee had crested because, he said, he had heard predictions before that never came true. Floodwaters were receding Thursday in northern Ohio, but the Illinois River at Peoria, 111., climbed 7 feet above flood stage.

Moses said 3,000 people were evacuated before Tuesday night from areas flooded during the weekend. The others have come from the subdivisions with the greatest potential for flooding: Lakeside, Lawton Place and Northside. Half the residents of those three subdivisions had left, Moses said. night, but he said severe thunderstorms sometimes dump up to 2 inches of rain. The Maumee River, formed at the confluence of the St.

Joseph and St. Mary's rivers in this city of 170,000 people, stood at 24.6 feet early today, down 1 foot from 5 p.m. EST Thursday, Rozeen said. The river hit a record 26.1 feet in 1913 when flooding killed 700 people in Indiana and neighboring states. "We've been lucky," Rozeen said.

"The more time we can buy, the more our rivers will go down. If there is more rain, the rivers will crest at a lower level." Sandbagging continued early today, he said, but most of the high-school-age volunteers who helped during the week were back at their desks as Fort Wayne community schools reopened. Troops, rioters clash on West Bank ers, as required by law, said James Hyde, executive secretary of the commission. A public hearing must be held within 220 days and both the township and the city present their views before the commission makes a final decision, he said. Battle Creek City Manager Gordon Jaeger said the city did not solicit the annexation request and remains neutral on the issue.

Penn-f ield Township Supervisor Russell Clutter said he assumes the Township Board would oppose the move, although it has yet to make a formal decision. Mrs. Van Nortwick said residents, at a recent public meeting, decided to pursue annexation after reviewing other options. "Everybody knows we've got to have the water lines replaced," she said. "Recall (of Township Board members) wouldn't solve our problem.

Annexation to the city would replace our water lines and wouldn't bankrupt us paying for it." The group also wanted to avoid going to court over the issue. There are 320 homes and 24 businesses in the proposed annexation area, which is nearly surrounded by the city, said Mrs. Van Nortwick. The area is bounded by Hopkins Street on the north and Park Avenue on the south. The western boundary is East Avenue north of Roosevelt Avenue and Sharon Avenue south of Roosevelt, although the north side of Roosevelt from East Avenue nearly to Garrison Avenue also is included.

The eastern boundary is the west side of Northeast Capital Avenue and Wagner Avenue south of Bailey Park. Residents have opposed the project because they say it is much too expensive. Residents along the new line would be required to pay a $1,000 assessment. In addition, the charge for each hundred cubic feet of water township residents use would more than triple, from 82 cents to $2.75, according to estimates. The city water rate is 55 cents per hundred cubic feet.

Water-project opponents had filed petitions earlier this month with the Township Board asking that the Con-vis portion be terminated. In response, the board set Thursday's special meeting to make a final decision. There has been no opposition to the North Acres project. Construction of the Convis line is estimated at $790,000, and just over $467,000 for the North Acres area east of North Avenue and north of Roosevelt. The construction and related costs were to be funded with a low-interest $1.6 million loan from the Farmers Home Administration, which would be repaid with the assessments and rate increases.

Just under 100 people turned out for Thursday's special meeting of the Township Board, and those who spoke once again urged the board to stop the Convis Subdivision project. The board voted unanimously to do "If they do not want the project, I do not want the project," said Trustee John Bartlett. "I feel it was a good project, a needed project," Clutter said. "But if people don't want it, I will vote yes (to end it) We decided we weren't going to force the project on them." He said the Township Board would do nothing more to improve the Convis system, which was installed in the 1920s and is riddled with holes that allow contamination to get into the water. Clutter said it would be up to the state Health Department to take any enforcement action.

The 33 residents who already have paid their $1,000 assessments for the project would get their money back with interest. The approximately $50,000 already spent on preliminary engineering and design work would have to be repaid by the township, thus forcing cuts elsewhere in the township's $750,000 budget, Clutter said. Theodore Havens, environmental health director with the Calhoun County Health Department, said installing wells would be out of the question for nearly all of the Convis Subdivision residents. He said most of the lots are too small to install wells properly isolated from homeowners' septic systems and those of their neighbors. Residents could install wells if they abandoned their septic systems, but that would mean additional costs for the work as well as paying sewer hook-up fees.

He said hooking up to a public water supply was the best solution. Wirsing said that as long as the old line is operating, the health department would push the owner to make improvements to remove the health hazard. Clutter said the township does not own the line, which has been maintained by the city in the past. Although there has been some question about whether the line was signed over to the city by the area's developer, no such documents have been found, Clutter added. City Atrorney Paul Levy said that as far as can be determined, the lines are owned by the heirs of Chap-pey Convis, the man who owned the subdivision when the lines were installed.

The city would replace the water line only if annexation goes throgh, Jaeger said. "If annexation doesn't go through, we may have to put out a notice that we're not going to serve them" if health officials said the lines posed a serious threat. In a letter to the Van Nortwicks, Jaeger said annexation was a serious step, and added that he would be willing to meet with residents to fully explain what is involved. Clutter said the Township Board now will request bids on the North Acres project. He said he also would investigate the board's liability in case someone becomes sick from using the water.

The Associated Press EL BIREH, Occupied West Bank Israeli troops clashed with rioting Palestinians here today as West Bank Arabs proclaimed a general strike to protest Israel's firing of the El Bireh mayor and town council. Shortly after noon, 40 Arab youths emerged from a mosque and "began throwing stones and chanting anti-Israel slogans. They set tires on fire, and when Israeli troops arrived, the Arabs hurled stones at them. The soldiers used tear gas to disperse the rioters. El Birch was tense after the dis missal of elected Arab town officials because of their boycott of the new Israeli civilian administration of the area.

Ibrahim Tawil, the dismissed mayor, received a stream of Palestinian well-wishers and journalists in his home and said he believed that the struggle against Israeli rule would continue. Israel seized the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. "I am one person out of many," Tawil said. "It is the duty of others now they can continue. The dismissals climaxed months of confrontation between the civilian administration that replaced Israel's West Bank military government last November and the area's radical Palestinian leadership, which views the new government as Israel's step toward implementing limited self-rule for Palestinians.

Sharon said in a statement that El Bireh's boycott adversely affected public services in the town. Ministry sources said El Bireh officials had refused to attend budget meetings for the fiscal year starting April 1. Shops were closed in El Bireh and the adjacent city of Ramallah, but only a few Israeli troops were seen patrolling. Tawil said he had refused to cooperate with the new governor "because we consider the civil administration a way to legalize the occupation. If we deal with them it means accepting them, and this will give it (Israel) the legality they ask for." On Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon ordered Me-nachem Milson, head of the civilian administration, to fire Tawil and his councilmen.

Cut production, not prices, OPEC leader urges Tayeh Abdul-Karim, the Iraqi minister, said OPEC delegates meeting at a Vienna hotel hoped to agree on reducing the production ceiling from 19 million to 18.5 million barrels a day. The lower level was agreed to unofficially earlier this month. With a recession-spurred world industrial slowdown, an oil glut and production levels already at a 13-year-low, OPEC ministers have a hard choice. They can further trim production to restore balance between supply and demand or face new downward pressures on their prices. The 13-member cartel's benchmark price of $34-a-barrel for Saudi Arabian light crude already is undercut by as much as $6 a barrel on spot markets, where oil is sold to the highest bidder.

ates oil minister who is the current president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and chairman of the oil ministers' conference here. Market analysts believe that if OPEC does not agree on production cuts below the current level, estimated as high as 19 million barrels a day, prices of crude oil and refined products will continue to fall. The Associated Press VIENNA, Austria OPEC's president urged the world oil cartel today to maintain its benchmark price of $34 a barrel as the group focused on ways to reduce production in order to dry up the world market surplus of oil. "There is no way to touch the $34-per-barrel benchmark," said Mana Saeed Oteiba, the United Arab Emir People in the News EUGENE MCCARTHY, who gave up his U.S. Senate seat 12 years ago, now says he wants to go back because the Senate "has lost a sense Wolverine Continued from A-1 GEN.

CHARLES A. GABRIEL, 54, and Adm. James D. Watklns, 55, have been chosen as Air Force chief of staff and chief of naval operations, respectively. President Reagan introduced the men Thursday.

The appointments are effective July 1. CLARENCE M. PENDLETON was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as the first black chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He headed the San Diego Urban League.

JANE PAULEY, co-anchor of NBC-TV's of what its function is." He said Thursday in Minneapolis that the body should be a counterbalance to adventuresome presidents. He wants to run as candidate of the Democratic-Farmer-Lab or Party. McCarthy was unsuccessful candidate for president in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 campaigns, running on a strong anti-Vietnam war platform. spondents prefer dumping ESPN, USA Network, and C-Span (on channel 2); 36 percent prefer cutting WKBD from Detroit (on channel 7), and only 8 percent prefer eliminating WGN (on channel 9), she said. Earlier this month, the news that Wolverine officials had decided to cut off parts of WGN in order to carry WWMA set off a flurry of protest.

Subsequently, Wolverine said it would instead follow the results of a subscriber poll. Wolverine can carry only 12 channels on its aging system, and nine of those channels are committed to local and area stations that Wolverine must carry, due to Federal Communications Commission regulations. The tenth channel carries the popular Home Box Office service, and the remaining two channels are filled with optional services WGN, WKBD from Detroit, and the ESPN-USA Network sports programs. "Today" show, says she liked Tom Brokaw, but she was a little intimidated by his strong personality, which could "take a room by storm. Eugene McCarthy ARMY BRIG.

GEN. James L. Dozier is being reassigned from his NATO post to become deputy commander of the U.S. Army's Armor Center at Fort Knox, Ky. Dozier had been held captive by Italian Red Brigades terrorists for 42 days.

He had said he wanted to return to the post he held when he was kidnapped. Dozier will be replaced by Brig. Gen. Lincoln Jones III, now assistant commander of the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash. ACTOR LOU GOSSETT who won an Emmy Award for his performance in "Roots," was arrested about 6:30 p.m.

Thursday along with a female companion at his Malibu Canyon home for investigation of possessing cocaine. Officials said they also were Investigating allegations the two supplied drugs to their children. Gossett's son and Honey Rufner's two children were placed in custody of the Department of Public Social Services. PHOTOGRAPHER SUSAN TUSA denies an allegation that she coaxed the widow of a slain State Police trooper to wear a "Fry 'Em in Michigan" T-shirt. Lydia Scott said the T-shirt belonged to a friend and she was told by the photographer that the photo would not be published.

JUDGE GEORGE LA PLATA has ruled that Ricardo Ellington, a 25-year-old man who has nearly completed a sex-change procedure, will be sent to a women's prison next month if he serves time at all for possession of stolen women's clothing. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 23. Sometimes I adored him. es aaorea mm.i Sometimes him so much, mch," ajt I didn't adore -X-T A i Ms. Pau- "But I always I The 31-year- I 1 ley said.

liked THE STATt OF This Week's Winning Numbers: 1 uiu juiu Hanoi aisu oaiu tu jan alist also said in LECH WALESA, Polish leader of the union Solidarity movement, will receive an honorary degree from small MacMurray Coillege in Jacksonville, 111. Walesa, who is under house detention in a Warsaw suburb will be recognized as a champion of human rights and freedoms. The college hopes that Walesa may be freed in time to accept the degree himself. JAMES CHASTIAN of Cookeville, will receive $3,000 worth of dialysis equipment from an Oak Hill, W.Va., woman who has had a successful kidney transplant. Mrs.

Helen Blake offered the equipment publicly when the company furnishing it refused to take it back because it was purchased by Medicaid and insurance money. Chastian was chosen from among 35 applicants because he is a dialysis patient who has no insuranced resources. 8-7 3-6- Woman killed with 'pet rock' The Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia A 62-year-old woman has been killed with a "pet rock" her lover gave her, and the man is missing, police reported. A senior officer said the body of Gwen Jackson was found today on a bed in her apartment. She died from a blow to the head, he reported.

Dally Numbort an interview in Redbook magazine's April issue Pauley that her recent miscarriage "was certainly the saddest experience of my life and, I. think, of Garry's life as well. But we found that the further we got in time from the episode itself, the less we mourned the past and the more we were excited about the future. I still hope to have children." She is married to Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Doonesbury. Compiled from The Associated Press 8-4-3 6-1-7-6.