Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 15

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1987 BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER Obituaries Carl I Murphy COLDWATER Carl L. Murphy, 70, of 634 Dubendorf Road, died Tuesday in Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. He I had been ill two months. He was born in Branch County and was a lifelong Coldwater area resident. He graduated from Coldwater High School in 1934 and was an Army veteran of World War II.

He owned and operated a dairy farm until retiring in 1979. He was a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Coldwater United Commercial Travelers 452 and American Association of Retired Persons. He was a former member of the Lakeland School board of education. Surviving are his wife, the former Eleanor Dinnella; sons, Patrick Murphy of Coldwater, and Michael Murphy of Tekonsha; five grandchildren; a brother, Howard Murphy of Coldwater; and sisters, Ora Bradley, Ruth Lenning, and Mae Semmelroth, all of Coldwater.

Services will be a at 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Memorial donations may be made to the church or the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are by Gillespie Funeral Home.

Basil N. Armstrong Basil N. Armstrong, 88, of Buffalo, N.Y., and formerly of Battle Creek, died Tuesday in the Heathwood Nursing Home in Buffalo after a long illness. He was born in Manitoba, Canada. He was employed by the Kel-.

logg Co. from 1935 to 1945, when he moved to Buffalo. He was a member of the University United Methodist Church in Buffalo. His wife, the former Grace 1 E. Robinson, died in 1975.

Surviving are sons, William A. Armstrong of Kenmore, N.Y., and Donavon Armstrong of Coshocton, Ohio; six grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; a sister, Helen Henbid of Battle Creek; and brothers, A. Garland and E.K. "Ted" Armstrong, both of battle Creek. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Friday in the chapel at. Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Disease Association. Arrangements are by Farley-Estes Funeral Home. Myrtle L.

Hettinger COLDWATER Myrtle L. (Teall) Hettinger, 87, of: 779 N. Michigan died Wednesday in the Maple Lawn Medical Care Facility after a long illness. She was born in Branch County and was a lifelong Coldwater area resident. Many years ago she was employed the old Coldwater Telephone O.W.

Chapman Cigar Factory and the City Restaurant. Her husband, Vincent Hettinger, died in 1972. She is survived by sons, Richard Teall of Coldwater, and Robert Teall of North Platt, a brother, Fred Teall of Coldwater; sisters, Gladys McDonald of Coldwater, and Edna Nasier of Denver, five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Dutcher Funeral Home.

Miles K. Hemry Miles K. Heinry, 88, of Battle Creek, died Tuesday in Arrowood Nursing Center. He was born in Fremont, and first moved to Battle Creek in 1927. He was employed by Kellogg Co.

before moving to the Caro area in 1945 to engage in farming. After retiring in 1962 he returned to Battle Creek. His wife, the former Myrtle Taylor, died in 1975, and a son, James Hemry, died in 1947. He is survived by a son, Walter C. Hemry of Kalamazoo; a daughter, Dena Carnell of Battle Creek; eight grandchildren; and 11 great children.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Huston and Ransford Funeral Home, Caro. Zena A. Chaffee UNION CITY Zena A. (Miller) Chaffee, 82, of 210 Woodruff died Tuesday in the Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo.

She was born in Union City and was a lifelong area resident. She formerly was employed as a telephone operator and as a. receptionist for two Union City physicians. She is survived by her husband, Wayne Chaffee. Services will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at Jenkins Funeral Home. Lawsuits filed to stop incinerator construction on The Associated Press DETROIT The government of Ontario and a U.S. coalition of environmentalists and neighbors have filed separate lawsuits claiming that a garbage incinerator under construction here would be hazardous. The coalition's suit, filed Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court against the city and the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority, seeks to stop construction of the incinerator, designed to burn 2,000 tons of trash a day while producing electricity. The Canadian suit, also filed Wednesday, asks the court to order the city to install filters and scrubbers on the incinerator, which the province fears will spew pollutants over neighboring Windsor, Ontario, said Ontario Environment Minister Jim Bradley.

Both lawsuits claim the incinerator lacks controls to reduce emissions of particulate matter, heavy metals, acid gases and other air pollutants. The coalition is composed of the North Cass Community Union, residents who live near the planned incinerator; and environmental groups, the Detroit Audubon Society, the Sierra Club chapter of southeast Michigan and the Environmental Defense Fund. "The city has steadfastly refused to address the threat to public health and the environment posed by this facility," said Dennis Piper, chairman of the Sierra Club chapter. He said the city has failed to consider other means of waste management. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young has said the city can't afford the pollution controls.

Construction of the incinerator began about a year ago and is scheduled for completion in 1989: "The facility is to be located only five kilometers from the international border, and the forecasted area of potential impact will extend well into Ontario," Bradley said. Ontario's decision to take legal action came after the protection agency in September withdrew its legal effort to impose state-of-the-art technology to combat sulphur dioxide emissions one of the major sources of acid rain. Bradley noted pollution controls are required on all new Ontario incinerators, including two in London, that produce energy from burning garbage. "All we're asking is that the city of Detroit employ the same technology as we're using in the city of London," Bradley said. He said Ontario is willing to spend whatever it takes to pursue the matter.

Investigation under way in murder-for-hire plot Gannett News Service DETROIT An investigation into a murder-for-hire plot involving two city officers began when one of the accused policemen attempted to implicate the other in a double slaying, according to documents filed in the case. Police records indicate that Officer Burt Lancaster, who is accused with Officer Myron H. Wahls Jr. of attempting to arrange a drug-related slaying, told his brother-in-law in February that Wahls "was an associate" of the man responsible for execution-style slayings in northwest Detroit. The brother-in-law is Detroit Police Set.

Larry Day, a homicide investigator. Wahls, 27, is the son of state Appeals Court Judge Myron H. Wahls. He and Lancaster, 26, were assigned to the 10th Precinct. They were arraigned Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to murder.

Wahls also faces obstruction of justice charges including one count hocusing him of protecting the identiny of a murderer. State grant key to recycler's move By LAURENCE CHAKUR Staff Writer Cereal City Recycling Center, 68 12th Springfield, is awaiting word on a state grant that would finance a move to a larger facility in Emmett Township. Plant Manager Hillard Freiny said he is confident he will get a $150,000 no-interest loan from the Michigan Department of Commerce. The move will begin soon after the loan is granted, he said. But Freiny concedes the move 15160 Road turns on getting loan.

The building once housed the Molenaar soft drink bottling and storage plant. also has requested a 12-year, 50-percent tax abatement on about $65,000 of work and installation of equipment at the new site. Emmett Township officials have created a special industrial facilities district for the business and set a public hearing at 7:15 p.m. on May 14 on the abatement. The board will consider granting the abatement at its meeting later that night.

Freiny said that the state has committed $2 million this year to recyclers because their work diverts waste materials away from local landfills. "As our business prospers the biggest beneficiaries will be the people of Calhoun County" (because of the diversion), 1 he said. Maradik resigns as principal of St. Phil high school By DAVE WILKINS Staff Writer Robert A. Maradik has resigned as principal of St.

Philip Catholic Central High School after three years. Maradik, 40, declined to elaborate on the reasons for his resignation or his plans for the future, other than to say he has plans to continue working in education. "I think everybody has certain goals they set, both personally and Maradik said. "I feel that I've reached those goals and it's just time for me to pursue another position. The reasons are personal and professional.

"I plan to stay in educational administration. I can't really comment any further," he said. Maradik's resignation takes effect June 30. "As far as we know, he resigned for professional and personal reasons," James Fausey, president of the board of education, said today. "He's done a good job for Fausey said a search committee has been instituted to find a new principal, a process he said he hopes is completed in about a month.

The Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo, which Robert A. oversees Maradik Catholic schools in southwest Michigan, will screen candidates for the St. Philip principal's position. "It's been a memorable and rewarding experience," Maradik said. "I've enjoyed the people especially the students.

Working with the kids, that's the bottom line. It's exciting. I wouldn't trade it for the world. No regrets. Maradik came to St.

Philip in 1984 from a position as of Ironwood Catholic Schools in the Upper Peninsula. He and his wife, Janice, have four children. Intergenerational topics are focus of Carol Tice, president of New Age Inc. in Ann Arbor, will be keynote speaker at "Generations Together," an all-day introspective gathering. for discussing intergenerational ini-.

tiatives. The seminar will be held immedi-. ately after. registration from 8:30 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Stouffer Battle: Creek Hotel.

Tice has conducted similar semi-. nars on intergenerational initiatives: nationwide, including in Atlanta, New York and San FranciscO. The conference, intended for persons associated with human service agencies and community leaders, is sponsored by Family and Children's Services, in cooperation with other' Births Elsewhere Peter and Martha (Schoder) Terry, Pontiac, twin sons April 12. She is a former Battle Creek area resident. D.

Robb and Linda (Sackrider) Ferguson, Munising, a son April 2. She is a former Battle Creek area resident. Paul and Connie (Edmonds) Hale, Clayton, N.C., a daughter April 12. Both parents are former Battle Creek area residents. Births BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY Joseph and Maryalice Doe, 9855 Verona Road, a daughter April 15.

Martin and Carrie Erskine, 78 Lathrop a son April 15. Regina Gaillard, 190-F Winding Way, a daughter April 15. Silas and Nadine Rogers, 21 E. Goguac, a son April 15. Darla Villeneuve, 605 N.

Main, Bellevue, a son April 15. OAKLAWN, MARSHALL Donald and Natalie Rector, 404 N. Madison, Marshall, a son April 8. Rare violin recovered The Associated Press DETROIT The Michigan FBI office, working with police in Belgium, has recovered a rare and valuable 237-year-old violin, authorities said. The violin, which was made by Peter Guarneri in 1750 disappeared in Belgium two years ago, FBI officials said.

It belonged to Guarneri House, Grand Rapids stringed instrument repair and retail company owned by Philip Greenberg, said an FBI spokesman. Two years ago the instrument was valued at $150,000. The company's workforce of six could expand by two to four workers within two years and the current amount.of paper recycled could increase from 3,500 tons a year to 10,000 to 20,000 tons, he said. The $250,000 project would include building six new truck docks, installing a bigger paper bailer, an outside scale to weigh, semi-trucks and a scale inside to weigh lift trucks, Freiny said. Freiny said the facility would not be messy like a scrap yard nor handie garbage.

The contents of materials must be clean and known because: 90 percent of materials are reprocessed and used locally for cereal boxes, he said. Freiny's son, Mike, owns the business and is considering the move be-: cause of the new building offers; added space and a floor plan well suited to the operation. The company is leasing its current location. Police and Fire Car hits MESC wall: A motorist drove a car into a wall of the Michigan Emloyment Security Commission, 135 Hamblin Wednesday: afternoon, but Battle Creek police could provide no information this morning. Managers in the office could not be reached for comment, but an.

employee said the accident occurred about 12:45 p.m. A hole in a wall has been boarded up. Four people injured: Four people were injured one critically about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday in a two -car collision at the intersection of Dickman and Helmer roads. Springfield police said it involved a pickup.

truck driven by David Carrico, 20, of 216 W. Van Buren and a car driven by Amy E. Parks, 77, of 176 W. Roosevelt St. Authorities have not released any other information.

One of Parks' passengers, Maxine Burch, 70, of 168 W. Roosevelt was in critical condition today in Community Parks and another passenger, Alice Hawks, 76, of 45 Stringham Road, were in fair condition in Community Hospital. Break-ins: Willow Street, first $350 television and $50 of prescription drugs stolen from an apartment. River Oak Street: 200 block: $170 worth of jewelry and stereo equipment, $42 worth of prescrip-: tion drugs and $87 stolen from an apartment. Hillbrook Drive, 900 block: Attempted break-in of a home.

Thefts: West Gognac Street, first block: $300 bicycle stolen from a ga-1 rage. About Town Art Center to close at noon Friday: Because of the Easter: weekend, the Battle Creek Art Center will close at noon Friday and reopen at 9 a.m. Monday, Problems of handicappers shown with puppets: The East Leroy a Elementary School. The puppets, owned by the Association for Kids On the Block puppets will perform from 8:15 to 9:40 a.m. Friday at Retarded County, are specially designed to help educated' children about problems of the handicapped.

Such problems range in scope from wearing eyeglasses to cerebral palsy. Easter egg hunt planned: The Parks Canoe Livery and Campgrounds Drive will mark its grand opening with an Easter egg hunt for children 10 and younger. The event will start at 1 p.m. Sunday, Winter to end April 23: Washington Heights Community Ministries' winter recreation programs will end for the season on Thursday, April 23. The staff is preparing for summer day camps.

REACT team to hold open house: Battle Creek REACT Team 2975 will host an open house at from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the Emergency Trailer on the McCamly Place Promenade. Persons interested in joining the group are invited to attend one of the group's meetings. For more information, call Max B.

Stockham. Toy terriers place in show: Dogs from Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Michigan were entered in the Michigan Toy Fox Terrier Association's two recent shows in Marshall. For both shows, Best Male of Show honors went to Toy Gem's Toy Maker, owned by Herb Neidner of Virginia, and Best Female of Show honors went to McGuire's Mi-Kookie, owned by Elaine McGuire of Melvin. The Champion of Champions class winner Saturday was Meadwood's The Sting, owned by John F. Davidson of Dunlap, Ill.

The Champion of Champions class winner Sunday was Singleton's Mikimote Ace, owned by Jeri Singleton of Maryland. The fall shows will be Sept. 12-13 in the Homer High School. local service agencies. The focus of the conference is to explore the needs and develop ideas that will enhance the quality of life for all ages, by linking one generation with another.

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10 P.M. D. 6 FRO. NITES TE 9 P.M. Wahls and Lancaster stood silently before 36th District Judge Nancy Blount and were released on personal bond, pending a preliminary examination May 7.

If convicted, both could receive life sentences. Lancaster's report to Day triggered the probe, in which an undercover informant and taped telephone conversations were used to gather evidence against both attorney had Samuel C. Wahls known of the investigation and pending charges for more than three weeks. Gardner, representing Wahls and Lancaster, said his clients never intended to murder anyone. "I believe there was no criminal intent here," said Gardner.

"These were young men puffing and woofing, talking too much and too big to impress each other, and the case turns on those conversations." According to police investigative reports given to Gardner, Lancaster told Day that Wahls knew the killer of Matthew Bell 40, and Marcus Seals, 31, both of Detroit, who were shot Feb. 15 in the city..