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WEDNESDAY briefing: A-2 THE STATE Jan. 31, JOURNAL 1979 in the News Senator hospitalized Sen. Herman Talmadge, hospitalized for treatment of exhaustion and alcohol abuse, could be out of the hospital in less than the four or five weeks originally planned by doctors, a spokesman says. "His attitude is excellent and he's doing just great," Lisa Gill, a Talmadge press aide, said Tuesday. The 65-year-old- Georgia Democrat entered Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland on Jan.

22 and transferred to the Long Beach, last Wednesday on the advice of his physician. The Senate Ethics Committee begins hearings next month into Talmadge's handling of Senate expense funds and campaign contributions. A comittee spokeswoman said the hearings might be delayed because of the senator's illness. New career cut short Former Gov. George C.

Wallace's career as a newspaper columnist may be one of the shortest on record one column. Edward H. Sims, editor and publisher of Editor's Copy Syndicate of Orangeburg, S.C. said Tuesday his firm would be distributing a weekly commentary, written by Wallace, to more than 300 newspapers. A sample column was printed this week, Sims said.

But, according to Wallace's agent, Robert Bray of Nashville, "The governor decided yesterday he didn't want to do the column right now so we're going to place it on the back burner for a while. Troubles to end? Actress Linda Blair's troubles with authorities inConnecticut may be coming to an end. A drug against the 19-year-old Miss Blair will be dropped if she can prove authorities in Calgary, Alberta, have dismissed a marijuana charge against her, a judge says. Miss Blair's lawyer, Martin Garbus, told Superior Court Judge Scott Melville on Tuesday that the Calgary City Court had dismissed the marijuana cob charge. Melville continued the hearing until Feb.

13 give Garbus time to document his statement. The star of "The Exorcist" was arrested in Calgary in August. At that time, she was on a program here which provided charges of possession of amphetamines would be dropped if she stayed out of trouble. Special visit to Arrow Bernard Shaw, Patricia Hearst's fiance, poses with Patty's dog, Arrow, at the Hearst residence in Hillsborough, before making a special visit to the prison in Pleasanton. On Thursday, Miss Hearst is scheduled to be freed from prison.

Lottery Tuesday's Weathering the Herman Talmadge George C. Wallace Linda Blair Cold weather will remain i in the Lansing area tongigt and Thursday. Tonight's low temperature will be 10 to 15 degrees and Thursday's high will be in the mid.toupper 20s, the National Weather Service said. This morning's low reading here was 17 degrees and Tuesday's high was 27. TODAY Low overnight 17, temperature at 7 a.m.

18, wind NW 8. High one year ago 19, low record high 49 in 1890, record low minus 10 in 1918. YESTERDAY Precipitation: trace; for the month 2.11 inches, for the year 2.11 inches; departure from normal the month plus for the plus .26. Snowfall: .2 inches, for the season 50 inches. Temperatures: high 27, low 22; departure from normal plus for the month minus 189, for the year minus 189.

TOMORROW Sun rises at 7:53 a.m., sets at 5:51 p.m. LOWER PENINSULA Mostly cloudy today Thursday with periods of light snow or flurCries. Highs today in the 20s. Lows tonight about zero north to 15 above south. Highs Thursday in the 20s.

Friday through Sunday A cold period with a of light snow or flurries each day. Highs from mid teens to lower 20s a and lows from zero to 15. UPPER PENINSULA Mostly cloudy today through Thursday with scattered snow showers except variable cloudiness with a few flurries away from Lake Superior. Highs today mid- teens to near 20. Lows tonight 10 above to 5 below.

Highs Thursday in the teens. Friday through Sunday A cold period with a chance of light snow or flurries each day. Highs from 5 to 15 and lows from zero to 10 below. Rain fell on the Eastern Gulf Coast states today while snow sifted down from northern Alabama -to the Great Lakes Region and England. The heavier snowfall is in New England, with 2 to 3 inches of new snow reported in parts of Maine and Vermont and lighter amounts in the Great Lakes region.

FORECAST I Until Thursday Ayatullah's blessing A young Iranian woman presents her little girl to the Ayatullah Khomeini for his blessing in the Paris suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau, where he has been living in exile. He i is expected to return to Iran Thursday in his attempt to take control of that country. Page A-3 Ayatullah's blessing Business Roundup Good year for Consumers Rainbow train fades JACKSON (AP) Earnings for Consumers Power Co. last year increased 16 percent and soared to 63 percent in the last quarter of the year, the utility said. Earnings per share of common stock, however, rose only 1 percent for the year because the number of shares increased about 16 percent, Consumers reported Tuesday.

The average number of common shares actually INcreased by about 5.8 million. Profits for 1978 applicable to common stock were $140 million against $120 million in 1977. Per share, profits were $3.21 in 1978 and $3.18 in 1977. Revenues rose from $1.64 billion to $1.87 billion, an increase of 14 percent. For the last three months of the year, earnings rose 63 percent from $23.6 million to $38.5 million.

Because the number of shares was higher, the increase per share was 41 percent, from 58 cents to 82 cents. Final-quarter revenues were $503 million, up 12 percent from $449 million. John D. Shelby, Consumers president, said the higher profits were the result of increased sales of natural gas. Temperatures in the company's gas service area in 1978 were 9.6 percent colder than they were the year before, he said.

The company did not state its return on the stockholders' investment, but on, Monday, when Consumers applied for a three-step, $324 million electric rate increase, Shelby said the return would be between 10 and 11 percent for 1978. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Amtrak's Niagara Rainbow passenger train, which linked Detroit and New York City via Canada, was to make its last run today. Starting Thursday, the train will run only between Niagara Falls, N.Y., and New York City. The service cut came when New York state decided late last year to halt its share of the subsidy for the Detroit -Niagara Falls leg of the route.

Michigan announced a similar intention after the New York decision. State Transportation Commissioner William C. Hennessy has said he wants to replace service from Buffalo to Detroit with direct service to Toronto. The Detroit Niagara Falls link might be replaced with overnight service between Chicago, Detroit and New York City. Chase bank drops prime NEW YORK The Chase Manhattan Bank lowered its prime lending rate from 11 percent to 11 percwent Tuesday, the first reduction by a major bank in more than two years.

But analysts said they didn't think other banks would follow suit immediately and Chase, the nation's third largest bank, cautioned that its action did not necessarily mean that interest rates had peaked. The prime rate is the interest banks charge their best corporate customer. It has stood at 11 percent since December, its highest level since the record 12 percent during the credit crunch accompanying the 1974-75 recession. Today in History Today is Wednesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 1979.

There are 334 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, the first American satellite, Explorer 1, was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1917, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I. In 1943, the turning point for the Soviet Union in World War II came as Joseph Stalin announced a victory over German troops at Stalingrad. In 1967, West Germany and communist Romania renewed diplomatic relations over the objections of East Germany.

In 1968, South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu declared martial law in the face of mounting guerrilla attacks throughout the country. 'Ten years ago: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration disclosed tentative plans to try to land a man on the moon in May. Five years ago: A Pan American jetliner crashed on American Samoa, killing 95 of the 101 persons aboard. One year ago: Israel and Egypt resumed talks on the military level in Cairo in the formal contact since the breakdown of politicial negotiations in Jerusalem two weeks earlier. Today's birthdays: writer Norman Mailer is 56 years old.

Actress Carol Channing is 58. Star pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels Nolan Ryan is 32. National Roundup Program 'valid' fishermen on the smaller boat WASHINGTON (AP) The government says voluntary affirmative action programs designed to end apparent discrimination are valid. And it urges the Supreme Court to uphold a program that guaranteed half the positions in a factory retraining program to blacks. The government's position was outlined in a legal brief submitted Tuesday concerning a program at the Kaiser Aluminum Chemical plant in Gramercy, La.

The program was challenged by Brian F. Weber, a white worker at the plant. Weber argued he was the victim of reverse discrimination because he was turned down for the retraining program although he had more seniority than some blacks who were accepted. Incumbent advantage WASHINGTON (AP) Incumbent members of the House and Senate enjoy an advantage over their challengers in raising money for political campaigns, according to new Federal Election Commission figures. The figures show incumbents received more money from special interest groups during the past two years than they did from individual donors.

They also show special interests gave incumbents more than three times as much as they gave challengers. On the whole, Democrats outspent Republicans, although individual Democrats got less on the average than did their GOP counterparts. Boat crash kills two MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Two elderly fishermen were killed when a 54-foot chartered fishing boat sliced into their smaller craft as it rode at anchor, authorities said. Police said the captain and three rescued from the ocean by passengers and crew aboard the larger boat.

No injury was reported among those on the larger craft. The smaller boat, the 23-foot Nancy IV, sank immediately after the collision with the Coni III. The victins were identified as Alex Hanson, 71, and Morris Goldstein, 72, both of Miami Beach. $150,000 gem theft HOUSTON (AP) Clerks paid no particular attention to one female shopper at the Neiman Marcus speciality store. She apparently found what she wanted $150,000 in jewelry without a clerk's helping hand.

She also didn't bother to stop at a cash register. Police said the woman evidently pried up prongs holding a protective glass case, then lifted the top to get the jewelery. A surveillance camera caught a woman standing near the case, but the film was fuzzy. Authorities said 24 rings are missing. Rule effect delayed WASHINGTON (AP) The federal job safety agency is delaying action to put into effect a new regulation designed to reduce the amount of toxic lead fumes workers are exposed to.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday it will postpone implementation of the new rule to Feb. 24 so an appeals court can consider industry arguments against it. The regulation would reduce permissible worker exposure from 2 200 micrograms to 50 micrograms of lead dust per cubic meter of air averaged over an eight-hour work day. As many as 835,000 workers could be affected by the rule, which industry foes say is too costly to meet and unnecessarily strict. World Roundup Soviets execute three David Bigley of Boston said the ship is expected to leave Britain in late MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet gov- February for the hunt which opens ernment has executed three citizens March 12, but he did not say how the convicted of setting off a bomb in a ship would be used.

Moscow subway car that killed from The Canadian government has set a four to seven persons, Tass said today. quota of 180,000 harp seals and 15,000 The official news agency said the hooded seals for the hunt carried out verdict was handed down Friday to Ar- by Norwegian and Canadian vessels in menian dissident Stepan Zadikyan and the northwest Atlantic. two unidentified "accomplices," but gave no details of the Cabinet reshuffle Human rights leader Andrei D. Sakharov said Zadikyan was not in Mos- (AP) Prime MinisSINGAPORE cow when the bomb Jan. 8, ter Lee Kuan Yew plans a Cabinet 1977 reshuffle exploded and that the KGB secret police after by-elections Feb.

10 to have planted it to discredit the seven seats in Parliament. fill might dissident movement. Lee is so confident of victory in the Seal protest planned day to fill Cabinet posts with elections, that he announced Tuesthree candidates running for the first HALIFAX (AP) The Greenpeace time. Foundation will use the ship Rainbow Lee's People's Action Party holds all Warrior in a campaign to protest the 69 seats in the unicameral Parliament. continued killing of seals off Norway The by-elections are to fill vacancies and off Canada's east coast, a caused by the death of lawmaker and Greenpeace spokesman says.

three resignations. Deaths ANDERSEN, NELS of Houghton LYNDE, LARRY DALE, 14, Lake, formerly of Lansing, died Mon- son of Larry and Thelma Lynde, 322 day. Arrangements by Estes-Leadley Northland, Perry, died Monday of inGreater Lansing Chapel. juries suffered in an auto accident. Services 12:30 p.m.

Friday at Knapp COOK, MARILYN 18, of 1300 and Smith Funeral Home. Brookdale, died Monday of auto accident injuries. Services 1 p.m. Friday MEISSNER, RUDOLPH, 117 Dakin, at First Presbyterian Church, Holt. died today.

Arrangements by EstesArrangements by Estes-Leadley Holt Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. Chapel. RUSSELL, HOWARD 81, of 1500 IRISH, EVA BELLE, 86, of 4764 New York, died Tuesday. ArrangeCurtice Road, Mason, died Tuesday. ments by Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Arrangements by Ball-Dunn Chapel.

Chapel. KEBLER, FLOYD, 72, of 1200 Ro- VALYER, FRANK 80, of 909 N. bins Road, died Tuesday. Services 2 Clinton, St. Johns, died Monday.

1:30 p.m. Thursday at Jessen Funeral p.m. Thursday at Osgood Funeral Home. Home. LYON, MERRILL 79, of 706 WONNENBERG, PAUL 61, of Jenne, Grand Ledge, retired Knapp 817 Clinton, Grand Ledge, retired Moemployee, died Tuesday.

Services 1 tor Wheel employee, died Tuesday. p.m. Friday at Peters and Murray Fu- Services 1 p.m. Thursday at Gorslineneral Home. Runciman Lansing Chapel.

Daily No. 850 day more than 12,000 customers south of Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday posed problems today for hundreds who. remained without service. 10 2010.010 -10 Snow Figures chow Flurries XXXX for Or PO KOIn Cold Data from Showers Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOAA US Dept al Commence An ice storm that resulted in power outages for Weather, high Alpena, sno 26 Detroit, sno 30 Flint, sno 26 Gr Rapids, sno 29 Houghton, sno 19 Houghton Lk, snd5 Jackson, sno 28 Tuesday Lakes region. LasVegas 38 23 rn Wednesday.

Keeping Busy Today County 4-H Youth Program is sponsoring an African Cultural Heritage workArt trip The YWCA is planning a shop from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Walnut trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts' Street School. It's free. new show, "The Second Empire: Art in France Under Napoleon III, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

with lunch in the Thursday Institute's North Court. Watercolors A watercolor paintState employees The Michigan ing class by the Lansing Art Guild, State Employees Association (MESA) taught by Harriett Spira, will be ofis sponsoring a special seminar for fered at 7:30 p.m. at Gier Community state workers included in the Human Center. It's free and open to the pubServices benchmark at 7 p.m. in lic.

the Terrace Room the Lansing group, Civic Center. All Human Services Discussion Christians Without workers are urged to attend for bench- Spouses will have a discussion on lastmark information and input. ing love at 7:30 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church. Russian drama "The Sea Gull," an Anton Chekov classic, will be Potluck Solo Parents will have a shown at 7:30 p.m.

in B104 Welles Hall, potluck dinner at 7:15 p.m. at WestMSU. It's free. minister Presbyterian Church. Bring a dish to pass or $1.50 members, $2.50 African culture The Ingham non-members.

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