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4B Lansing State Journal Sunday, April 1 0, 1 988 (Police say mom slashed semis rotate digest throat and wrists. The two youngest boys escaped from the house through a front window and ran to a neighbor's house. The neighbor called police and fire departments. Prior to the attack in their com- fortable Oakland Township home, the woman had been seeking treatment for alcohol problems, deputies said. The attack occurred after several days in which the woman had been "talking strange" to the boys, Molinar said.

"They're a very down-to-earth family, a family-oriented family," said a neighbor. The mother was in fair condition at the hospital Saturday, while the boys were treated and released Friday, nursing supervisor Gloria Eldred said. ing some her aunt's "special soup" before taking them to the movies. According to Molinar, the woman then told the boys to go upstairs to their bedrooms to change clothes for the movies. She followed the 15-year-old to his room, hugged him and stabbed him in the right side of the neck with a razor blade and pulled the blade 3 inches across his She then slashed the 10-year-old on the right side of his neck with the same Molinar said.

15-year-old's screams alerted the 17-year-old, who took the blade away from the woman. The oldest boy was unhurt. Molinar said the mother ran to the kitchen and used a butcher-knife and a paring knife to cut her Associated Press ROCHESTER An Oakland County woman was being held under police guard at a hospital Sat-' urday after allegedly attacking two of her sons with a razor and then cutting her own throat and wrists, officials said. Sheriffs deputies' declined to identify the family, but said the mother, 41, and sons ages 10 and 15 were treated at Crittenton Hos-pital in Rochester. "It looks like your typical upper-middle class family," SgL Douglas Molinar said.

"Mom just went berserk." Just prior to the attack Friday, the woman allegedly attempted to poison her three boys by feeding them soup laced with pills and wine. She told them she was mak Some of the grown-ups were tempted to try it themselves. "I'm afraid they'd lock me up," said Harold Smith of Detroit, who brought his two grandchildren. "But if it were warmer, I just might do if When all was said and done, Ricky Frizzell, 8, of Dearborn Heights and Tonya Warrwick, 12, of Dearborn were voted Mr. and Ms.

Mud, respectively. -Each were awarded white, cardboard crowns. Frizzell, his body caked with muck, was looking forward to a shower. "He's really blond," said his mother, Debbie Ma-tejewski. Vic Chiasson, Wayne County Parks Department event coordinator, jumped into the puddle to crown the champions.

"We had fewer people last year because it was in the 40s with 20 mph winds," he said. "But this is the only event in the world, if it rains, who cares?" Court rejects woman's heir bid A Dearborn woman's bid to be declared an heir to the $40 million estate of the late auto magnate John F. Dodge has been turned down by the Michigan Supreme Court The court in a one-sentence order, unanimously refused to review a July 1987 Court of Appeals ruling that a suit filed by Frances Manzer Mealbach was submitted too long after the Dodge trust fund was distributed to heirs. Mealbach has claimed that she and the late Frances Matilda Dodge Van Lennep were Siamese twins separated shortly after birth in November 1914.. V' Her attorney, James Cunningham, said his client was disappointed.by the court's decision but "on the other hand relieved so she can return to the normal existence she had before this whirlwind hit and she can return to being a private person." Compiled from Associated Press reports.

I Five die in highway accidents I A Harrison man Involved in a broadside collision Saturday was among at least five people killed in Weekend traffic accidents, state police said. James A. Hoag, 53, was the driver of a car involved in the accident at 1:07 p.m. in Missaukee County's Richland Township, police said. In other accidents, state police said: Thomas C.

Lattin, 20, of Hesperia died after the car in which he was a passenger collided head-on another vehicle at 11:05 p.m. Friday in Oceana County's Greenwood Township. It wasn't known whether he was wearing a seat belt Aaron A. Blattner, 17, of Concord died after the car he was a passenger in collided head-on with another vehicle at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at Spring Arbor Township.

It was not known whether he was wearing a seat belt Terry L. Lemons, 35, of Detroit, was struck by 'car and killed on east bound Interstate 96 in Livings- ton County's Genoa Township at midnight Friday. Theresa L. Buchanan, 30, of Ionia was killed the car she was driving collided head-on with "another vehicle at 3:11 a.nv Saturday in Ionia "'County's Easton Township. She was not wearing a seat belt Kids frolic in Mud Day puddles WESTLAND About 100 kids sloshed, slid and skidded through the picnic grounds on Mud Day, but to the grown-ups watching, it was good, clean fun.

The youths spent more than an hour frolicking through about 200 yards of gooey, man-made puddles during the second annual, event in this Detroit homeless center Pair marry at Associated Press Cr KALAMAZOO Five months ago, Thomas Moyer Capitol National Bank Offers a 0 9 MONTH "The days drag on" when someone is homeless, he said. "Some days, I had to pick myself up just to prove I could keep Eventually, Moyer got a job in Kalamazoo with a beverage store and began piecing his life back together. In his spare time, he volunteered at the center. "When I came to see him here (at the center) it struck me how at home people were here, like a family," McKenna said just before the ceremony on Friday. The simple wedding was attended by about 40 users of the homeless center, who lined up to hug the new couple and then to drink punch out of a large tin dispenser and eat cake and sandwiches.

The Rev. Janice Maatman, executive director' of the center, performed the ceremony. In a prayer, she said: "Make their lives together a sacrament of your love to this broken world, so that unity may overcome estrangement forgiveness heal guilt, and joy triumph over despair." dropped in to the Drop-in Center for the Homeless, broke and wondering if he would ever see his girl- friend again. Last week, he and Catherine McKenna, whom he had met and fallen in love with in Canada, returned to the center to be married. They chose the center because the people there were like family to them.

-Last winter, Moyer returned to Kalamazoo after he. and McKenna decided they should be separated for a time. Soon after he arrived, he was robbed of all his clothing and possessions by a roommate. 'JMoyer, a graduate of Lawrence High School and Nazareth College, found himself living at the Gospel Mission or with friends before going to the Drop-In Center, run by the Ministry with Community. became like family to me," Moyer said.

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