Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 3

THE STATE JOURNAL Saturday, Feb. 24, 1962 3 Lansing Michigan Brings Co nnty Jail Situation to Head Break9 Adequacy Probation Meted to Snow Costs Are Double In Lansing Con-Con Would Cut High Court Power Michigan's supreme court would be forbidden to remove a judge for any cause under a provision tentatively adopted Friday by the constitutional convention. By a preliminary 54-47 vote in committee of the whole, delegates approved a proposal which declared flatly: "The supreme court shall not have the power to remove, a judge." Forg I J- (Ik nflrfhfcii rj Motorist Sentenced Probation, Two Days In Jail Given Woman Mary T. Cunningham, 31, of 1318 N. High pleaded guilty Friday in circuit court to driving with a revoked license.

She was sentenced by Judge Sam Street Hughes to two years probation, the first two days to be served in the county jail, and ordered to pay $100 court costs. Lennie A. Barker, 41, of Lawrence stood mute to a charge of drunk driving, second offense, and he was released on bond to await trial. Lillian L. Smith, of 538 N.

Cedar pleaded guilty before Judge Marvin J. Salmon to obtaining a drug (paregoric) by subterfuge. Police said she used a false name to purchase the drug Jan. 25. She was returned to jail to await sentence.

Walter P. Jerry of 1221 Regent stood mute to a warrant charging larceny from an automobile. He wa returned to jail to await trial. Police charged that Jerry took seven Michigan employment security commission checks worth $162 from a parked automobile on BURNING NIGHT OIL The Ingham county jail was aglare with four hardened inmates escaped. They were caught several hours i Journal Photo.) night lights Friday night after later near Battle Creek.

(State As adopted, however, the pro posal does not prevent the high court from suspending a judge while he is being investigated for alleged misconduct or some other reason. DEBATE WAS LENGTHY The action came after several hours of debate in which many of the 56 attorneys among the con vention's 144 delegates took part. Debate on recommendations for streamlining Michigan's judicial system, which began Thursday, was expected to take up most if not all of the convention's time next week. The proposal limiting the su preme court's power over judges was offered as a minority report to the judicial branch committee majority recommendations. It was sponsored by Ann Don nelly (R-Highland Park); Thomas McAllister (R-Bad Axe), and Karl Leibrsnd (R-Bay City), a former circuit court judge.

They had sought to bar the high court from either removing or sus pending a judge, but an amend ment was adopted dropping the reference to suspensions. In recommending the restric tion on the supreme court, the mi nority declared: "The supreme court has ample power, under the framework of its own rules, to enforce its general superintending control over the lower courts "Any other public official re moved in Michigan for wrongdoing by the governor or the legislature has an appeal to and the protection of the supreme court. Designating the supreme court as the removing body deprives judges of that protection. The supreme court becomes judge, jury and prosecutor. There appears to be no reason for this discriminatory action." Delegates recalled the 1958 case of Saginaw Circuit Judge Eugene S.

Huff, who refused to obey a supreme court order transferring him temporarily to the Wayne county court. Huff eventually complied with the directive after he was de clared in contempt and fined $250. CITE HUFF CASE During the debate, several former circuit court judges serving as convention delegates cited the Huff case as an example of why they favored restrictions on the supreme court's power. One of them, Herman Dehnke (R-Harrisville), said he had noted "increasing indications that the court is getting around to the point where it believes it has un limited power. Huff was hailed before the high bench and talked to in a manner similar to the treatment meted out to the worst criminals, Dehnke said.

John Martin (R-Grand Rapids) declared that the Hull case was an aggravated one in which deci sions had not been made in the Saginaw circuit for a number of years. The supreme court exercised its disciplinary powers only to correct a bad situation, Martin said. The proposal will be voted upon at least twice more before it goes into the proposed new constitu tion. er A Lansing woman who admitted taking some $4,000 in funds of the Big Brothers of Lansing by use of forged checks was sentenced Friday to five years probation and ordered to make full restitu tion. Sentenced by circuit court Judge Sam Street Hughes was Mrs.

Olive Breininger, 43, of 5928 Rolfe The defendant was also or dered to pay $300 court costs. Mrs. Breininger pleaded guilty last Nov. 10 to a specific warrant charging her with forgery and publishing of a $59 check belong ing to Big Brothers, a Community Chest agency, where she formerly worked as office manager. Lansing police said the woman admitted forgery of at least 47 checks against the Big Brothers accounts for a period of a year between the fall of 1960 and 1961, The total amount taken was orig inally set at $4,508.

In his sentence Friday Judge Hughes ordered the defendant make full restitution on all the checks and the method of payment will be determined by the probation department. Kenneth Evans, 35, of Livonia was sentenced to 27 months to 14 years in prison for forgery of a $108 check in Lansing which he admitted. Woman, 101, Dies Mrs. Ida M. Walker Lived With Daughter Mrs.

Ida M. Walker, who cele-1 brated her 101st birthday last Oc tober, died Friday at the home of her daugh Mrs. Ancretta f-' Perkins. 1046 nmprA st with whom she had been living for about the past 10 years. She had suf fered from fail ing vision over Mrs.

Walker the past 15 years was in good health until about two weeks ago. Mrs. walker was born in Biiss- field. Oct. 9.

1860, and had lived during much of her life in Reed City and Bellaire. bne otten spoKe traveling over the nation with who was a construction worker, when she was a girl; the 1892 Columbian exposition Chicago, and of her mother, who lived to be 105. Mrs. Walker's husband died in 1911. Surviving besides her daughter Lansing, are two other daughters, Mrs.

Helen VanAntwerp of Lakeview and Mrs. Iva Palmer of Detroit. Funeral services will be held at p. m. Monday at the Ball-Dunn funeral home.

Mason, with burial Deepdale cemetery. Police Seeking Check Suspect East Lansing detectives are seeking a man who has passed two forged checks totaling $119 two East Lansing stores. The man, about 25 or 30, with dark hair and described as "quite good looking" passed the checks two food stores in East Lan sing on Feb. 15. In both cases, the checks were made payable to a "Bob Huff man" on the account of an East Lansing gas station.

One check was for $61 and the second for $58, police said. serenilij EXPLAINS MECHANISM W. Lenawee last September. Irene DuBois of 2592 Cooper stood mute to a charge of issuing a check for $89 without funds in the bank to cover it last Dec. 23 in Mason.

She was released on bond to await trial. Horace Dothard. 37, of 1406 Al bert stood mute on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. He was jailed to await trial. Police allege Dothard assaulted his wife, Catherine, 37, and inflicted an abdominal wound with a knife while the two argued last Dec.

25. Three Days Left to Buy Car Plates Michigan motorists are reminded they have only three days next week to buy 1962 license plates ahead of the deadline. Deadline for using the old plates is midnight Wednesday. Most police, however, allow a day of grace before they crack down on violators. Latest count by the secretary of state's office showed 1,885,530 1962 plates sold.

Sales are running about 500,000 ahead of the same date last year, when only license tabs were available. Branch offices in all 83 counties are open today. License sales are expected to hit the 3 million mark before the deadline with the usual last minute rush anticipated. License sales last year totaled 3,758.010. $139,457 Spent Thus Far in Gearing Streets, Walks Lansing's snow removal costs were running twice as much as last winter, officials revealed Sat urday.

Last Tuesday nights snow storm cost the city over $10,000 for labor, salt and equipment used in clearing some 360 miles of streets. A total of $139,457 has been spent thus far this winter. Collins E. Thornton said $53,757 has been spent for labor, against a $32,000 total for last year. He said equipment costs have nearly passed the $36,300 mark, and another $15,000 transfer of funds was being requested from the" city council.

Equipment cost for the entire winter season in the previous year was only $16,500. It was reported that $49,400 has been spent for 5,639 tons of rock salt, and another $7,500 worth has been ordered since Tuesdas storm. The cost last winter for salt was $48,238, Thornton said. The official said that each storm costs different amounts. This is due to the prevailing temperatures, and numerous other factors A light snowfall coupled with ice and sleet which resulted in the closing of local and area schools a few weeks ago, required 600 tons of salt.

The recent 6-inch snow storm didn't cost as much as the one previously mentioned, because high temperatures caused much of the snow to melt. This eliminated thousands of extra tons of snow which normally would have had to be picked up in the down town area, Thornton said. Schools Merge The state department of public instruction reports there have been six school district annexa tions in the state since late January, reducing the number of districts to 1,882. ALEUT Today's YOUTH are TOPS Meet Bill Murphy, a seventh grader at Immaculate Heart of Mary school. Writing, drawing, paint i and science provide quite an array of activities for this six-footer.

He put all of these interests together to make up the creative writing entries for this year's Youth Talent Exhibit and Science Fair. Bill includes singing, collecting, and reading among his many outside activities when he isn't busy presiding over class or club meetings. Perhaps you have a potential winner. Mail your entry blank TODAY. tuliti if IB to but of her of in in 2 in in at Is Doubted Mason' Situation Seen Tense; Supervisor Debates Issue By DAWN HULETT (journal Special Writer) MASON, Feb.

24 Personnel and jail adequacy of the Ingham coun ty sheriff department were be ing given top consideration Sat urday after a jailbreak by four men Friday night. Members of the county board of supervisors were mulling over the warning they received from Sheriff Kenneth Preadmore less than six months ago that jail con ditions here were explosive. They were giving plans for the construction of a new jail or the alternative remodeling of the old one consideration while the chair man of the board of supervisors' ways and means committee defended a decision not to hire three additional deputies. "The lailbreak could have oc curred even with extra men on duty," said John M. Patriarche of East Lansing, committee chairman.

NEEDED 3 MORE Preadmore said the three addi tional men, which would cost the county $13,800 a year, would have permitted an extra turnkey to be on duty when the break occurred Friday night. "But those men (the ways and means committee) have to go with what they got, which is their job," the sheriff added. Preadmore said an additional man is usually summoned into the jail to help move the prison ers from the second-floor day room to their cells such as when the four men made their dash for short-lived freedom. But all the deputies were need ed for patrol duty Friday night because of heavy snow and a large number of calls coming into the department for assistance. Sheriff Preadmore did request additional deputies a month ago.

but he said they would be put out on the road, Patnarche said. "Our committee felt the sher iff department didn't need addi tional men for road duty. Several townships and villages in the coun ty have been adding additional police officers and this lessens Sheriff Preadmore's work," he added. "So far as I know the sheriff doesn't need additional manpower." Preadmore said he and his 24 deputies have put in 10,000 hours of overtime because of the man power shortage. The men haven't been compensated with additional pay or time off.

The department also has five civilian employes. Conditions at the jail have also been under the scrutiny of the state jail inspector since 1952, who last year warned supervisors the state may be forced to close the building. The board now has under con sideration plans of an architect that either call for construction of a new jail at $1,786,700 or re model the present one on E. Maple st. at a cost of $1,936,700.

Preadmore said the present jail doesn't provide enough maximum security cells, allowing convicted and suspected felons to mingle with men held on misdemeanor counts. When the break occurred by the four men at 7:20 p. m. Friday, 87 men were house in the jail. Six women prisoners were being held in Jackson county jail.

OVERCROWDING The third floor had to be opened to handle the additional men forcing the county to move the women to Jackson. The jail, which has a capacity of 115, is often overcrowded. The prisoners Friday night in cluded seven convicted or sus pected murderers and 16 parole violators who had been arrested on new charges. Deputy Charles Young was act ing as turnkey on the second floor where 48 prisoners were being housed in two cellblocks Friday night. Deputy Elliott Moore was on the main floor on dispatcher duty.

Preadmore was in his quarters down the hall. ihe tune when the break oc curred is the peak load at the jail when new prisoners are given jail garb, fed and when they are moved into their cells. "Prisoners spend 24 hours a day planning for a break," Pread more said. AT YOUR SERVICE There's no need for you to ever miss a copy of THE STATE JOURNAL. If you live in Lansing and do not receive your paper by 6 p.

m. daily or by 9 a. m. on Sunday pick up the phone and dial IV 5-3211. Your STATE JOURNAL will be delivered at no extra cost to you or the news-paperboy.

Subscribers in other towns please write our Circulation Department. BySheriff Dr. Bender Is Speaker Tells Baptists Man Must Conquer Self Conquering of man himself is the greatest challenge facing civilization today, students attend ing the Michigan Baptist Student convocation were told Saturday. Dr. Thorwald Bender noted in the keynote address man has "conquered all his natural enemies but himself." Legalized human relations should not "take the place of ethical relationships." he said.

"No law makes a good swimmer save another from drowning, but ethics makes a man try," he added. Dr. Bender, professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Eastern Baptist seminary, Philadelphia, addressed the group meeting in the East Lansing American Legion hall. Approximately 75 students representing Michigan State university, Eastern university. University of Michigan, Hillsdale college.

Western Michigan university and Kalamazoo college attended the sessions which began Friday evening and will end Saturday evening with services in the M. S. U. Memorial chapel. ENTIRE FLOOR SAMPLE STOCK NOW REDUCED FOR CLEARANCE OPEN SUNDAY 1 TO P.

M. Mon. and Fri. 9 to 9 Thurs. and Sat.

9 to 5:30 Other Evenings by Appointment Ph. Ml S-S041 Sheriff Kenneth Preadmore( in shirt sleeves) explains operation of mechanical doors in Ingham county jail to state police Cpl. Lucien Conard of the East Lansing post and Dick Fraiier, State Journal reporter. (State Journal Photo) Adam's Rib Fellow Legislators Kid Newlywed Sumcracki On License Raise Legislators like to play little jokes on each other. Humor relieves the monotony of long and frequently boring debates over mundane matters.

Friday, it was time to debate Rep. Adam Sumeracki's bill to raise the price of a marriage li- cense from $2 to $3. Sumeracki, a Hamtramck Democrat, was mar ried for the first time last month the age of 50. Rep. Homer Arnett (R-Kalama-zoo) called on lawmakers to make the bill retroactive to Jan.

1 and make Sumeracki pay the higher rate. -Rep. Lloyd Anderson (R-Pon- tiac) proposed a $50 license charge, with the entire amount to refunded after 10 years of mar riage. Everybody laughed but nobody supported the amendments. The bill was moved up for a vote next week.

Ted OsLar Attends Press Briefing Gov. Swainson's press secre tary, Tbaddeus (Ted) Ogar, was Washington Friday and Saturday for a conference of governors' press secretaries called by Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President Kennedy. More than 40 governors' press secretaries were attending the conference. Ogar said the conference program included "federal-state liaison and background briefings with top officials of the state department, the defense department, the commerce department and the United States information agency." A Story of The Christ the Inspiration of His spoken Words, GLADMER THEATER 4:00 P. Sundays 51.25 EVES.

P. M. Children 50c Asks Peace Studies 3F Professor Talks In East Lansing Everybody talks about peace, but few study anything about it. It's time that some questions were raised and answers louna, said Kenneth E. Boulding, University of Michigan economist who also is co-director of U-M center for research on conflict resolution, a unit dedicated to research on peace and war.

Speaking in East Lansing Fri day evening before the Women International League for Peace i and Freedom, Prof. Boulding noted that "the problem of stable peace is a problem in social systems. COLLATERAL PROBLEM "Yet we persist in trying to solve it as if it were a problem in physical systems, in weapons, in armament, and in things which are merely the parameters ot social systems." One crucial question is, he said: Is peace researchable? The issue takes on particular significance, for peace has become a matter of life or death for most of us. Boulding granted that the ques tion is arguable, but he refuted the theory that we lack the meth ods for studying peace, though peace is in theory researchable. DONT QUIT "If we do not have an adequate methodology, and we do not, the answer is not to abandon the problem but to search for new methods," declared Boulding who has recently received a $10,000 award from the American Council of Learned Societies for l'is distinguished accomplishment in humanistic scholarship.

The occasion of Prof. Boulding's talk was the annual Smorgasbord Internationale of the league which was held in the Community room of the East Lansing Savings and Loan association. A capacity crowd sampled exotic dishes from 15 different countries. UmJMbrft-Ucrtr pments NOW SHOWING 3 PERFORMANCES DAILY MAT. Weekday Mats.

$1.00 Nights i ii i at be in 9 Miles Southwest of Lansing on US-27-M-78 on Charlotte Road ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS! FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF AUTOMOBILE OWNERS LIVING IN AND NEAR WEST SAGINAW PLAZA The Department of State as a community service will sell auto licenses on Monday, Feb. 26, 1962 7 P. M. to 9:30 P. M.

Only i ri at WEST SDEDE (DRUGS 4010 West Saginaw Please Bring Your Car Title With You 1 Palmer-Bush Funeral Home 520 East Mount Hope Lansing Michigan, A.