Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 18

I 4-B LANSING STATE JOURNAL Sunday, Feb' 17, 1985 Metro State Where merchandise is always Priced Right. Leslie pupils enjoying their new menus Monday thru Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Noon to 5:00 p.m. yhmm Sunday Ph.

(517) 349-6600 Meridian Mall Okemos cft- I'll 1 DO YOU HEAR BUT DONT EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTY HEARING IN ASK PEOPLE TO REPEAT THINK EVERYONE IS Ask about IN-HOME testing at no charge or obligation By SAUT TROUT Staff Writer LESLIE MostacciolL oriental chicken, enchiladas, pizza these are just a few of many foods which are available to Leslie High School students each day thanks to the creative menu planning of Food Services Director Kathy Rhodes. On the job just two years, Rhodes has turned the school lunch program around by running the operation like a restaurant As in a restaurant, students have several choices of entrees with an international flavor. Through planning, Rhodes can offer students the usual Type A hot lunch (federally supported) in addition to four or five a la carte items and a salad bar designed to tempt even the most discriminating teenage eater. "I SEE THE school lunch program as a business and the a la carte line as a necessity to making the operation profitable," she said. Liking what they see and eat, lunches served at the high school are up by about one third with similar increases shown at elementary buildings.

The profit is also there amounting to $8,000 last year. "We use any profits to pay for more modern equipment at the schools. This year the high school kitchen will have new sinks, salad bar and steam table. Older equipment is then English muffin with Swiss cheese) others at the table will do the same," she said. Rhodes believes all the equipment in the world won't build business, if the food isn't tasty.

Supervising her eight employees, Rhodes wants most items prepared from scratch and encourages the cooks to taste test and improve recipes. Garnishes are also desirable. From her office sandwiched between the Mixmaster and the pantry, Rhodes is the picture of quiet efficiency. Starting her day at 7:30 a.m., she manages to plan menus, supervise preparation and complete the necessary piles of paper work with a hubbub of activity all around her. ONCE THE NOON rush is over, clean up finished and the next days meal preparations underway, Rhodes devotes herself to completing required paperwork chores.

At 4:30 p.m. she heads home to Lansing and her husband Attorney Michael Rhodes. The Leslie food service job is the first K-12 school position for Eastern Michigan University graduate. With a degree in food service management, Rhodes has worked at colleges, a large commercial cafeteria, hospital and nursing home. "When the Leslie job became available, I decided it would provide a new challenge, plus the advantage of having Christmas and summers free," she said.

Soft photo by SALLY TROUT Trust Sears for Behind-the-ear hearing aids Kathy Rhodes, director of Leslie's school lunch program, has introduced a whole new line of dishes to the menu. $30 OFF Behind-the-ear hearing aid 8153 $369 Reg. $399 Designed to reduce background noise, distortion. hasn't escaped changes either. Pupils enjoy lunches served family style with the big favorite being French toast and sausage.

This has worked out surprisingly well with less food wasted, more new foods tried and added time available to eat. "They no longer stand in a cafeteria line, money is collected at the tables, and ft a friend tries the broccoli or international burgers (hamburger on an moved to the upper elementary school where Rhodes is now trying to work her magic. Menu choices have been expanded here as well with food now to be merchandised better. "With the old steam table, food choices can be displayed to advantage with the salad bar expanding the choices even further," Rhodes explained. THE ELEMENTARY program CUSTOM 8147 ALL-IN-THE-EAR Sears Price $399 Sale prices end March 2 ntargad to show detail PAK302I Sears Roebuck Co.

Frandor Shopping Center 3131 E. Michigan, Lansing, Michigan 48912 Hours 9:30 a.m. til 6:00 p.m 9:30 til 12:00 p.m. Threats force sheriff to hide murder suspects EDINGTON'S IN STOCK CLOSE-OUTS! woundings of a deputy sheriff and another man. No charges have been filed against the three in the slaying earlier Wednesday in nearby Gove County of Larry McFarland, 27, manager of a Stuckey's restaurant in Grainfield, 40 miles southeast of Colby.

GOVE COUNTY Attorney Phil Stover said he was awaiting laboratory tests and reports, and did not expect to file his charges against the three suspects for a couple of weeks. After being abducted from the Bartlett and Co. grain elevator in Levant, Moore and Schroeder were found dead on a nearby road, shot in the head. The battery charges relate to the woundings of Maurice Christie, 61, manager of the grain eleva tor, and Thomas County Undersher-iff Ben Albright, 27. Albright was shot after he stopped a car on Interstate 70 near Levant, a short time before the abductions and shooting at the grain elevator.

His wife, Pat, said he was doing "just fine" Saturday at Citizens Medical Center in Colby and that his doctor said he could probably go home on Monday. Pat Albright, a nurse, said her husband was still quite weak and will need some rehabilitation for his right hand. "But his attitude is super," she said. "It has been right from the start." CHRISTIE REMAINED hospitalized Saturday in Colorado at Presbyterian Denver Hospital. Susan Woo- dard, a nursing supervisor, said his condition and spirits were both "very good." Remeta, meanwhile, has been charged in Michigan with robbing a gas station at Copemish on Jan.

27, said Betty Bishop of the Manistee County Prosecutor's office. Michigan officials also said they were seeking a Manistee man believed to have been involved in that robbery. Officials from Crawford County, are investigating possible links between the people held in the Kansas shootings and the slaying of a convenience store clerk at Dyer on-Monday, and other investigators are looking for links to a Sunday robbery in which a woman was shot and wounded at Waskom, Texas. Concluded from Pago 1 separate appearances before District Magistrate Judge Richard Ress, who set the $5 million bonds and tentatively scheduled preliminary hearings for Feb. 25.

The judge said he would appoint attorneys to represent them. Everyone entering the courtroom had to pass through a metal detector, and there were police station inside and outside the building. A crowd gathered outside to watch as the defendants were escorted across the parking lot that separates the law enforcement center and the courthouse. The charges filed Friday stemmed from the slayings of Glenn Moore, 55, and Rick Schroeder, 28, and the va vt i ts DRAPERY RODS Decorative Plain Traverse, Also Curtain Tension Plain Traverse Reg. 12.

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OA WINDOW SHADES Save energy and Money Now! Every In-Stock Window Shade off Light Filtering or Room Darkening in White or Cream '00 $0( ODD'S 'N ENDS SHADES child. Gragg declined to rule on whether Mealbach could have been Dodge's daughter, saying what mattered was the amount of time that has elapsed since the estate was settled in late 1970. An OctoDer 1980 Wayne County Probate Court order settled the division of Dodge's property, and it was upheld last year by the Michigan Supreme Court. "By permitting Mealbach) to come into the Probate Court four years after all litigation has ceased, regardless of how meritorious her claim may be, would contravene the intent of the Michigan Supreme Court, which is to permit final orders to stand," Gragg said in his ruling. "I CANT officially comment until we get a copy of the opinion," said James Cunningham, Meal-bach's attorney.

He said no decision has been made on appealing Gragg's ruling. DETROIT (AP) A suburban Detroit woman who said she was the Siamese twin of an heir to the $40 million Dodge auto fortune has had her claim rejected in Wayne County Probate Court. Frances Mealbach, 70, claimed she was the long-lost Siamese twin of the late Frances Dodge Van Lennep, daughter of automobile industry pioneer John F. Dodge, and she sought a share of the Dodge estate. But Probate Judge J.

Robert Gragg ruled Friday that Mealbach was too late to lay claim to the fortune. "It's not a surprise," the grandmother from Dearborn said after learning of the ruling. "It's about what I expected." IN HER SUIT filed last October, Mealbach said scars on her neck and head indicated she may have been surgically separated from Van Lennep shortly after birth. Van Lennep was Dodge's oldest from ea. He said the task force found no evidence that alternative approaches would be better either as a matter of economics or justice in dealing with medical malpractice cases.

"I doubt that any American, including health care providers and their families, would be willing to give up their rights," Shepherd said. "Would they be willing to accept a fixed amount for the loss of a limb or an eye? Or even, in the worst of circumstances, the death of a loved one? Should a victim's pain and suffering not be taken into account? Would they agree with the proposition that punitive damages do not have a significant deterrent effect?" SEMINARS ON the federal judiciary, Indian law, women's bar associations, human reproductive technology and the law, entertainment and sports law practices, comparable worth and sexual harassment highlighted Saturday's ABA meeting program. DETROIT (AP) Punitive damages in medical malpractice lawsuits should not be eliminated because they are a deterrent to "incompetent" health care, the head of the American Bar Association said. ABA President John Shepherd, in Detroit this weekend for the organization's 1985 midyear meeting, acknowledged that the costs of medical malpractice insurance remain a problem, but said the cure is not in "ill-considered, peremptory actions." Shepherd- was reacting to the American Medical Association's call to immediately limit financial damage awards in medical malpractice suits. QUOTING FROM an ABA task force's findings on the nation's liability system, Shepherd said in a statement Friday that the study found punitive damages provide a "significant and necessary deterrent against incompetent and careless rendition of medical services." ftLliiuJtffi ML STORE HOURS: 9-5 SAT.

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