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i St Joseph 16 Lakeview 31 Pennfield 40 Olivet ......................14 B.C. Central 14 Harper 13 Saginaw B.V 8 St Philip 6 Marshal! 28 Maple Valley 35 Athens 12 Delton 34 Albion 0 OBronson 8 Union City 6 DG-A .........................21 FRIDAY NIGHTS SCORES A hi rmrnin nrmp Battle Creek UJL1LU KUlJJ.il Wil 25 CENTS SEPT. 22, 1990 "SERVING THE CEREAL CITY AND SOUTHCENTRAL MICHIGAN" A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Latest Scores Afihelsiiaini Club closes ifis doors On TV this weekend Days of leisure, lunches are gone I AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 3 Baltimore 5 New York 0 Milwaukee 3 Cleveland 2 Texas 2 Toronto 1 Minnesota 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 4 Pittsburgh 1 New York 3 St Louis 0 Houston 5 Atlanta 3 Complete scores in Scoreboard, 2C By DAVID CARLTON Business Editor Notre Dame at MSU Live on Ch. 13, 28, 41 p.m. UCLA at U-M Live on Ch.13,28, 41 Noon i dent one year and a member since 1977, said talks are going on with someone he would not say who to assume management of the club, which occupied the 1 7th and part of the 18th floors of the tower.

The Athelstan has staved off dissolution before, but Bromley said, "There's a feeling that (the club) has served its purpose." After being closed from mid-December 1984 until reopening in March 1986, it increased membership, paid off debts and sought members. Bromley said the Athelstan has had three management contracts. "It's become a traditional luncheon club, and it's hard to find a high-caliber manager to run it just on lunches," he said. When the vote was taken to dissolve the club, the Athlestan had about 120 members, paying dues of $20 a month with a $20 monthly minimum for meals and other club services. "Time was when lunches were more leisurely and a time when the club counted 40 bankers and physicians among its members," Bromley said.

Today, half-hour lunches are more the norm and many business and professional offices have shifted away from the heart of downtown. Longtime member Maxwell Goodman, of A.G. Edwards Sons, recalls when the Athelstan was busy and well-patronized. Goodman recalls when the club occupied three floors in the tower. The game room floor was the first to be closed, followed by the lounge and private dining rooms, eventually leaving only the main dining room and bar.

"It's sad," he said. "It was an important element in the community." Robert B. Miller chairman of the Miller Foundation and former publisher of the Battle Creek Enquirer, said he was See ATHELSTAN, 3A it Today's Highlights Previews on 1C, 4C Enquirer Graphic by Julie McCallum Pigs on para de The Associated Press WASHINGTON Federal regulators filed a $200 million suit against President Bush's son Neil and other officers of the failed Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association on Friday, accusing "'Pi 1 VHllllf mm Ford reaches tentative pact with striking Canadian union TORONTO Union negotiators and Ford Motor Canada subsidiary reached a deal on a new three-year contract Friday that could end a walkout by 12,800 striking workers at nine Ontario plants. Workers will hold a ratification vote Sunday and could be back on the job Monday if the proposed contract is accepted, said Canadian Auto Workers President Robert White. Under the proposed agreement, wages will increase by 7.5 percent in the first year, 6.7 percent in the second and 4.8 percent in the third, the union said.

Among other benefits: one year's notice of any workplace closing. Liberian rebel leader declares cease-fire LAGOS, Nigeria Rebel leader Charles Taylor, the man accused of prolonging Liberia's civil war, on Friday announced a unilateral cease-fire and said he hoped all warring parties would comply, according to a news report. A French news agency said Taylor considered a West African army task force in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, to be among the warring parties. Taylor said his army, the largest in Liberia, would stop fighting at noon today. It was not known whether the task force or forces led by rebel leader Prince Johnson would join in the cease-fire.

'No one could stay Bush says of Saddam video WASHINGTON A courier was on his way with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's message for America's TV audience, U.S. officials said Friday. President Bush, told the tape would run 90 minutes, dismissed it with the comment, "No one could stay awake through that." The networks said they wanted to see it before saying how much might be shown. U.S. agrees to cut forces in Philippines MANILA, Philippines The United States reportedly offered to cut its forces in the Philippines, but no agreement was announced as U.S.

and Filipino officials ended their latest round of talks Friday on the future of U.S. bases. Hours later, club-wielding police clashed with about 1,000 protesters demanding closure of the bases. No date was set for future talks. The 109-year-old Athelstan Club, once the heartbeat of Battle Creek's social life and later a prestigious private club, has ceased to exist.

Members have voted to dissolve the club as a non-profit corporation. It opened its doors to the city's social elite in 1881. After moving five times in its history, it has been on the upper floors of what is now the Comerica Tower since 1931. Finding new management is the problem, said Athelstan's president, John Bromley of Massachusetts Mutual Insurance. Bromley, who has been Athelstan presi- City setts sights on dirty water If plans work, it will be good riddance to rust By MARK MAYES Staff Writer Battle Creek plans to test a new filtering system this winter that could clean up the city's rusty-colored water the subject of countless complaints from residents.

The newly developed system is less expensive than chemical treatments used to get rid of the iron Grand Ledge's and manganese system a that causes tap wa- success. 2A ter to look cloudy and rusty, Public Works Engineer John O'Brien said. Officials estimate the system, which engineers hope to start testing on a small scale in November, could cost $2 million to install. O'Brien said there is not enough money available to implement the iron removal without affecting water rates. The new filtering system is not included in an estimated $9.6 million in capital water improvements that are planned for the next five years.

Those improvements include a 1.5 million gallon water tower on the city's southwest side and continued water main improvements near Helmer Road. The projects are to improve water service to that part of the city, O'Brien said. The iron-removal testing, to be performed in the Verona Well Field with portable equipment, is to determine whether it will work here and how much it costs to operate, O'Brien said. Engineers are to perform the tests in-house at the wastewater treatment lab so the city won't have to expend any capital, he said. City water officials have been trying for years to find a way to clear up the water and quell fears that it's dirty and unsafe to drink, he said.

Under the current well system, about 200 pounds of iron a day ends up in the water. When the iron and manganese first enter the system, they are dissolved, but when exposed to oxygen in water towers and pipes, they turn into a solid form, producing the rusty water, he said. The iron and manganese are not harm-See RUST, 2A them of "gross negligence" contributing to the institution's collapse. The civil suit, filed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in U.S.

District Court in Denver, said the defendants "repeatedly breached their duties" to the Denver-based institution and its depositors. Neil Bush Troubles just beginning. 2A Bush, 35, served from August 1985 to August 1988 on the board of Silverado, which was seized by regulators on Dec. 9, 1988. The failure cost taxpayers an estimated $1 billion.

Bush and his attorneys were not immediately available for comment. He has de-nied any wrongdoing concerning Silverado in a separate conflict-of-interest case brought against him by the Office of Thrift Supervision. Thrift regulators are seeking an order against Bush that could bar him from working for a bank or a savings and loan. Staff Photo by Doug Allen Binder Park Zookeeper Mary Houtman holds a pair of Vietnamese potbellied piglets that will be on exhibit at the Miller Children's Zoo today. Five of the petite porkers were born Sept.

11 at the zoo. Local man convicted in 2 murders Reported Deaths By ANNE MclLREE Staff Writer Hillard Asher Martha M. Bell Charles AA. Burk Jr. Keith E.

Chambers Arlie D. Clav Jr. Gail F. Conklin Lena Pastore Albert N. Smith Sara F.

Smith Floyd B. Todd Everett C. Tuttle Fr. Andrew J. Wotta presented.

Melvin Graham was the biggest problem. Melvin simply admitted he lied and continually lied." "They had to believe Melvin or at least felt what he The convictions were the result of the Nov. 30, 1988, shooting deaths of O'Neal and Rogers, and the shooting of Melvin Graham. The prosecution has maintained the shootings were the result of feuding drug dealers. Bowen will be sentenced Oct.

8. The two murder convictions carry mandatory life sentences without possibility of parole. "He will definitely appeal it," said Bow-en's attorney Susan MladenofT. She said she was surprised at the verdict "based on the evidence the prosecution Wilmont "Chip" Bowen will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole after a jury convicted him Friday in the murders of Latony O'Neal and Frederick Rogers. Bowen, 27, had no reaction when the jury announced his conviction on two counts of first-degree premeditated murder.

He was also convicted of assault with intent to murder and felony firearm. Martha Findlev Louise Lane Sally A. Levi Edward O. Mooney Tiffany M. Obrinske-Stevenson Wilmont Bowen See Page 7A said was supported by other evidence," said Prosecutor Conrad Sindt.

"The verdict is entirely justified." Inside the Enquirer Officials muddling 'through messed-up mail 3-7A 2A 8A 28 1-6C 3-5A 3B 2A Local Nation Obituaries People Religion Sports State World Ann Landers 38 Bridge 4B Business 4A Classified 6-10C Comics 4B Editorials 6A Entertainment 5C Features 3B Horoscope 8C uses fax to reach gulf Gannett News Service into Saudi Arabia as quickly as possible as a courtesy to the U.S. government. A Pentagon spokeswoman said Friday she was aware of 33 tons of mail delayed at Heathrow this week. She said the sheer volume and the lack of planes held up the mail. Al DeSarro, a spokesman for the U.S.

Postal Service, disputed there were ever 38 tons of mail sitting unattended in London. He said there was a brief backlog following the Sept. 7 decision to replace the 12-ounce mail restriction with a 70-pound limit. Gannett News Service DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia More than 30 tons of letters, cards and parcels for U.S. troops in Operation Desert Shield were abandoned in one big dead-letter office a warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport, military officials say.

The backlog is being cleared and the mail flow is improving to the 150,000 troops in the Persian Gulf region, military and postal service spokesmen say. A British Airways spokesman said Friday the airline has been moving U.S. mail Michigan Lottery DAILY NUMBERS 4-5-2 6-65-2 KEN0 NUMBERS 2 5 7 10 12 23 24 26 28 33 34 36 39 40 51 55 64 66 67 69 71 73 Weather "We're expecting 10,000 a day," said Rob Dalziel, vice president for international services. Tom Curran, an spokesman, said all fax requests should be mounted on 8V2-by-ll-inch paper, and photos must be photocopied before they will be faxed. WASHINGTON Have friends or family among the 150,000 servicemen or women in the gulf? Go to any phone center store including one in Lakeview Square mall with rank, Army post office and Social Security numbers, and your message is on its way for free.

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