Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

Looking at Christmas '84 5B Freemasons They foster belonging In community Lions face 49ers in San Francisco 1C Me Joy roaiD LainA ri if A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Copyright 1 983 DECEMBER 27. 1983. LANSING. MICHIGAN Tuesday floms Mud, WEDNESDAY WILL be mostly cloudy, with a 100 percent chance of snow and a high in the low 20s. Snow and freezing rain fell Monday on parts of western Michigan, but most of the state began warm I (J Lansing Stat Journal with other roads in the area nearly impassable.

Snow was scattered from Washington to the Great Lakes, with almost the only good news a tiny temperature rise that pushed some states above freezing for the first time in more than a week. In Chicago, the thermometer poked above zero Monday for the first time in 1002 hours. Although it is warming slightly across mid-Michigan, more snow is likely in Lansing tonight and Wednesday. The National Weather Service says there is a 90 percent chance of snow tonight, with l-to-2 inches possible. Near steady temperatures in the mid-teens are expected compared to Monday's low of 8 below zero.

freezes on trees $1 billion a year on the tree and probably $2.5 billion on the retail market, Ness said. Since frozen oranges can still be squeezed for juice if harvested before deterioration begins, growers expected to be able to save much of the damaged fruit. IN LAKELAND, the heart of Florida's citrus region, the temperature dropped to 23 today. Earl Wells, another Florida Citrus Mutual official, said efforts to protect the fragile crop, 85 percent of which remained on trees, would do little good. "There isn't a great deal anybody can do," he said, adding that less than 5 percent of the state's groves have heaters.

By The Associated Press Freezing rain, snow or sleet blocked travel across much of the Deep South today with cities such lated, while the death toll from De- iremen battle ICY DUTY morning at a factory in the Green -A sippi and northern Alabama as the icy weather moved into Georgia and South Carolina. In Birmingham, where even walking was difficult, the entire interstate highway system and several other major arteries were closed or impassable in all directions. "In general, travel across north Louisiana is impossible this morning." the National Weather Service said. All roads in the area from Monroe to Arcadia were closed, including Interstate 20 and U.S. 80.

In northeast Texas, the intersection of 1-20 and U.S. 69 was closed with U.S. 82 and U.S. 59 south and west of Texarkana, impassable. U.S.

67, U.S. 71 and U.S. 82 around Texarkana also were closed Mew blast citrus crop By The Associated Press Temperatures plummeted 10 degrees below freezing today in citrus groves from Texas to Florida, and growers fought the cold with water and smoke but faced possible crop losses in the millions of dollars. Many fruit trees were ready for harvest when the nation's cold wave spread to the South over the weekend, breaking records as temperatures dropped into the 20s and teens. FARMERS IN TEXAS' Rio Grande Valley were burning smudgepots and wrapping their trees against the cold.

Florida growers flooded groves with canal water. Florida's crop, most converted to orange juice concentrate, is worth and deficits rose. Editors turned overseas again for their fifth choice the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe and the breakup of talks with the Soviets. Sixth was the anti-nuclear protest in Europe and the concomitant freeze movement in the United States.

THE LIST: 1. Marines massacred in Beirut terror bombing. 2. Soviets down South Korean airliner. 3.

U.S.-backed invasion of Grenada. 4. American economy: Inflation down, unemployment drops, deficit rises. 5. Missiles deployed in Europe, Russians break off talks.

6. Anti-nuclear movement in Europe, nuclear freeze drive in the United States. 7. Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace prize. 8.

Menachem Begin resigns in Israel. 9. Weather: Winter storms, spring flooding, drought and hurricane plague the nation. 10. James Watt resigns as secretary of the interior.

NUMB BIRD This ice-covered pelican garden statue in St. Petersburg, marks the coldest Christmas since 1906. idiom) skoirraslh) Massacre top AP story 25 CENTS ing slightly after a 10-day cold snap that left at least nine people dead, the weather service said. Record lows were set Monday at Jackson and Detroit, where the mercury plunged to 11 degress below zero and 8 below, respectively. THE FIGHTING in Beirut broke out after French troops serving in the multinational peacekeeping force withdrew Saturday from three key positions abutting Chatilla as part of a redeployment designed to strengthen French defenses against guerrilla attacks.

When Lebanese troops move in to take over the vacated positions, Shiite militiamen stormed out of the southern suburbs to drive out the army, which they charge is allied with their Christian militia foes. The army then brought in tanks and armored personnel carriers. After three days of combat the army command said its troops "firmed up their control of the situation in the two camps" late Monday. to suffer from kidney and heart ailments. The broadcast stressed that Andropov's report and plans drafted for the economy "focus more than before on production efficiency, on spending more funds on social needs and on doing all that is necessary to keep the nation's defense potential at the proper level." In the Journal 30 PAGES 4 SECTIONS 1 SUPPLEMENT WEATHER: Snow.

Warmer. Details Page2A. Ann Landers 6B Business 4B Classified 3C to 6C Comics 5Comm. Crossword Deaths 2B Editorials 6A Help 6B Horoscope 6B Living 5B. 6B Metro 1Bto3B Onlooker IB Sports 1Cto3C Television 6Comm.

Theater 4Comm. Nawa Editor, John Wrd 377-1072 TELEPHONES -Home Delivery 377-1020 Classified Ads 377-1111 Information 377-1000 Sports Scores 377-1012 kolSs 4 WTS NEW YORK (AP) The terrorist massacre of peace-keeping U.S. Marines in Lebanon was the top story of 1983 by vote of Associated Press newspaper and broadcast member editors. The top 10 stories of the year had a heavy foreign flavor, reflecting U.S. concerns and actions overseas.

No. 2 in the poll was the cember's record cold wave passed 270. interstate highways and other roads were jCea over and impass- able thiS morning across parts of northern Texas, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, northern Missis- Us 'i it hi kirn Vn'si- VMM a three-alarm blaze Monday Point section of Brooklyn downing of a South Korean airliner by Soviet jets. No. 3 was the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada as part of a tougher Reagan policy in Central America and the Caribbean.

The U.S. economy, which was the top story in the 1982 poll, ranked fourth in 1983 as inflation abated, unemployment dropped 6. Controversy surrounds Judy Stiver's surrogate mother arrangement. 7. A youth's beating death brings police to the House of Ju-dah cult camp.

8. Amway Corp. and its Canadian subsidiary plead guilty to defrauding Canada of customs duties. 9. A chapter in Michigan's PBB disaster came to an end as a bankruptcy judge approved reorganization of Farm Bureau Services Inc.

10. (tie) Construction gets under way on the Project Elf military antenna and furor follows the baseball bat beating death of Vincent Chin. ship of City Council, Lansing School District, state government, Michigan State University, other governmental agencies, business, labor, neighborhood organizations and minorities. "ITS NICE to have a gentle, quiet, personable mayor," City Councilman Jim Blair said in typical remarks. "He sets a good tone for the community.

He's a mayor you can be proud of, somebody you can feel good about." Former mayor Max E. Mur-ninghan liked Mc Kane's "team approach everyone seems to be moving in the same direction with a minimum of internal controversy." Only former Mayor Graves complained about the new atmosphere, grousing that McKane is "bowing and kowtowing to the council." MCKANE SAYS he puts council members first and drops whatever he's doing if one calls. Management decisions have been scrapped overnight if a council member demanded it, several administrators BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) An Israeli soldier and three guerrillas were killed in a shootout today when an Israeli patrol encountered a guerrilla squad laying explosives in the Lebanese port city of Sidon, the Israeli military command said. In Beirut, police said the latest civil war cease-fire was holding on all fronts around the capital today, and there were reports that Lebanon's largest Christian militia force, controlled by the Phalange Party, was offering to abandon military action in hopes its Moslem rivals would do likewise A POLICE statement said "cautious calm" prevailed around the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra Recall top state story Bob Hope carries on. Page 3A and Chatilla in west Beirut after three days of heavy fighting that left 60 people dead and 125 wounded.

The cease-fire in Beirut ended three days of fighting which pitted the Lebanese army against fundamentalist Shiite Moslem militiamen who control the southern suburbs of the capital next to the two refugee camps. It was the worst flareup in Beirut since a three-week outbreak of civil warfare last September. Police said three Lebanese soldiers were killed and nine wounded, while the rest of casualties were militiamen or civilians. 300-plus-member policy-making body had adopted economic plans for 1984. It made no mention of Andropov attending the second meeting, but noted he had sent word Monday that "temporary causes" prevented his attendance at the opening.

His speech was read Andropov, 69, has not been seen in public since Aug. 18. He is reported ndropov again a 'no show' state stays on even keel By The Associated Press Newspaper and broadcast member editors of the Associated Press in Michigan chose these as the top 10 state stories of 1983: 1. A 38 percent income tax boost prompts recall drives. 2.

Dioxins found in Michigan waterways and fish spur national study. 3. Chrysler Corp. returns to financial health. 4.

Agnes Mansour quits Roman Catholic order of nuns to keep state job. 5. Evacuation and cleanup of Michigan's worst toxic waste site near Swartz Creek. McKane By SHARON McGRAYNE StoK Writer Can Mr. Nice Guy's peace-and-harmony platform conquer the rambunctious, wheeling-dealing, back-stabbing feudal barons of Lansing's City Hall? When Terry McKane took office two years ago, he said.

"I'll be a firm, decisive mayor who is able to make decisions and is willing to work with the council." Halfway through his first term as mayor Dec. 30, he is confident he fills the bill. CONVERSATIONS WITH more than 50 community leaders confirm that his commitment to cooperation and teamwork in City Hall is almost universally appreciated. Compared with his predecessor, Gerald Graves, McKane is viewed as something of a Great Compromiser. But the jury is still out on whether he has the managerial ability to tame this municipalgovernment.

Almost everyone interviewed praised his cooperation with the MOSCOW (AP) The Communist Party Central Committee ended its two-day. meeting today, and ailing Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov apparently missed the closing session as he had the opener on Monday. Radio Moscow announced the end of the meeting in a 3 p.m. (7 a.m.

EST) news broadcast, saying the mation-passing festivities. "I worry for his family," says one of his administrators. "At the Polish Hall, at a barbecue, wherever two shall gather, there shall Terry be." "HE' MAKES all the ethnic events, churches and so forth," agrees Hortense Canady, a leader in the black community. "None of them seems to be too small, even though he's not campaigning. It's very pleasant." McKane cites his work with Lansing churches among his foremost accomplishments "being in the pulpit or teaching Sunday School classes in virtually every denomination in the city." Although he regrets the loss of time with his wife and children, he says he and his wife Virginia see his job as a chance, "in a personal, even a religious sense, to serve the people of Lansing." "CEREMONY IS being with people, trying to establish a sense of community or togetherness," McKane said.

"It's easy to forget. said. McKane proudly says he has not vetoed a single council vote in two years. Despite the air of cooperation, McKane has not developed a dependable core of votes he can depend on, observers note. Council coalitions are formed Issue by issue.

And if Darin Armstrong Inc. fails to meet its Feb. 1 construction deadline for the downtown hotel as developer and former city councilman Joel Ferguson predicts the coalitions may turn against McKane. NEXT mayoral campaign will not help the atmosphere either. The only three candidates mentioned so far are councilmen Louis Adado, Patrick Lindemann and Blair.

Adado, for example, gave McKane a lowly 4 or 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 as mayor last fall. McKane uses the ceremonial functions of his office skillfully, however, to build an aura of goodwill. In his three-piece suits, primly-clipped haircut and recently acquired girth, he revels in ribbon-cutting, but this office has some aura and I try to make that available to people." State government officials beam in response. Phillip Jourdan, chief of Gov. James Blanchard's staff, calls the McKane era in City Hall "marvelous We've had nothing but the most pleasant relationship." BUSINESS, OFTEN at odds with McKane's predecessor, is enthusiastic.

Bill Boettcher of Liebermann's said, "I can't say enough good about him. And I've never heard a single businessman say he didn't favor what's going on." Michael Hofmann, president of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce and executive vice president of First of America Bank, gave McKane a "AAA" rating. Labor relations have improved, union leaders say. They negotiated six contracts in McKane's first year without strikes, work stoppages or arbitrations. The nonsupervisory police union negotiated its first contract without arbitration since 1968.

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