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Tuctdoy, December 19, 1978 MndninGjpK). around the slat around Hie province 9A THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH. Trudeau likes job Device shields rider Lawyers get threats Ann Arbor sets drinking penaltiei Testimony ends GRAND RAPIDS (AP) Testimony in the first part of a federal court battle over the fishing rights of Michigan Indians is finally over, but no ruling is in sight. U.S. District Judge Noel P.

Fox on Monday gave attorneys until Dec. 29 to submit written arguments. Once those documents are in. Fox said he will set final oral arguments. But the judge gave no hint when he might rule on the case.

Testimony began Feb. 28. On Monday, Fox said only that he will rule "as fast as a human being can do it with all the other activities that merge upon me." If Fox decides the Indians kept their fishing rights under 19th century treaties with the United States, he has said another set of hearings will be needed to decide if state officials may limit Indian fishing at all. In the trial, two Chippewa bands from the Upper Peninsula the Sault Ste. Marie and Bay Mills groups are suing Michigan.

The Indians claim they still have their fishing rights and the federal government has joined the Indians in suing the state. Hearing held GRAND RAPIDS (AP) A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 27 for a 29-year-old Grand Rapids man accused in one bank robbery after being arrested in the weekend robbery of another bank. Willie Clark was charged Monday in U.S. District Court of robbing an Old Kent branch in Wyoming of $3,500 on Oct.

21. Clark was stopped at a Wayland roadblock Saturday about 45 minutes after nearly $6,200 was taken from a First National Bank branch in Kalamazoo. State police said they found the money in Clark's car. ANN ARBOR (AP) The Ann Arbor City Council has passed an ordinance assessing a $5 fine for 18- to 20-year-olds caught drinking alcohol. The Ann Arbor council passed the ordinance 10-1 Monday night after two other proposals were defeated.

Ann Arbor Councilman Ronald Trowbridge said there should be no penalty because he felt the law Is a denial of 14th Amendment rights. He voted against the $5 fine because he felt that penalty recognizes the new limit as constitutional. Trowbridge's proposal and that would have imposed a $2 fine each were de- Protest starts YPSILANTI (AP) The new president of Michigan's fifth-largest university hasn't officially been named yet but already is a subject of controversey. Some faculty and students groups at Eastern Michigan University are sure that the school's Board of Regents already has settled on a successor to James Brickley. and they aren't happy about the man they say has been chosen.

He's Timothy Dyer, a member of the EMU Board of Regents, and superintendent of the Wayne-Westland Community Schools in suburban Detroit. Candidates for the post were interviewed this past weekend, but Ed McCormick. chairman of the Board of Regents' selection committee said Monday no choice was made. Referring to the assertion that Dyer already had been chosen. McCormick said: "The motives of people who make statements that are not true are generally suspect." A group of 18 EMU department heads and supervisors took out newspaper ads and issued statements Monday against the choice of Dyer.

feated 6-5. The Ann Arbor ordinance contains one exemption. It does not apply to school property for grades kindergarten through 12. He'd like shot LANSING (AP) After four frustrating years as House Minority Leader, Republican Rep. Dennis 0.

Cawthorne says: "I just wish we'd had one crack at leading the Legislature." Cawthorne. a Muskegon resident, is quitting the House after 12 years. Republicans still will be vastly outnumbered, 70-40, in the new session which starts Jan. 1. Cawthorne conceded at a news conference Monday that he had worked very closely with Republican Gov.

William Milliken. He said it was the only way to be effective under the circumstances, and he predicted a rift between Milliken and the House Republican caucus early next year. "There are grave political risks in cutting yourself off too much from the governor," he pointed out. He did not cite examples of where the party division will come, but said he had a "feeling there will many, many examples early on." The caucus "cannot win if it cuts itself off too much from the governor," he added. Cawthorne has been criticized by some Republicans for backing the moderate governor too closely on most issues.

But he said newly elected minority leader, Rep. William R. Bryant of Grosse Pointe, "is going to find it's more difficult to turn things around than he might imagine." The gap between the executive office and the largely conservative caucus may be narrowed, Cawthorne said, if Milliken governs more conservatively in the coming year. OTTAWA (CP) A local Mountie has come up with a device that could save your neck when out snowmnbiling this winter. It's called a grabber, and operates much like devices used on American army jeeps during the Second World War to prevent decapitation by piano wire strung across roads by Germans.

S.Sgt. Howard Dunn developed the device, which bolts upright to about head height on the snowmobile cowl, to protect against one of the sport's deadliest threats barbed wire. He started his project eight years ago after his brother was severely slashed by barbed wire while snowmobiling. Last May, after much interest was expressed in the device, he decided to market it. Operating from his home, his makeshift factory is going steady with packaging storage and shipping.

Persistence pays off TORONTO (CP) Metropolitan Toronto police, in the process of checking a list of 20.000 cars, have arrested a 30-year-old salesman in connection with the hit-and-run death of dancing instructor Judy Jordan. Mrs. Jordan, 29, was struck by a car Nov. 27 outside her Toronto apartment and dragged for two blocks. She died in hospital of head injuries.

Police have charged Robert C. Stewart of Toronto with criminal negligence causing death and failing to remain at the scene of an accident He is to appear court today. A police spokesman said the hit-and-run squad received a list from the ministry of transportation and communications of 20.000 1976-77 blue Chevro-lets. the type of car believed to have been involved. He said police were checking each car when they interviewed a man and laid the charges.

TORONTO (CP) The sheriff of York County says threats against lawyers have increased since the Family Law Reform Act was passed last March Sheriff Philip Ambrose said Monday that changes in the act create unrest because women now are entitled to more in separation and divorce settlements. He said that because matrimonial and family cases are often emotionally charged, lawyers tend to ignore threats made by either party in such cases. However, since the shooting death of lawyer Frederick Gans two weeks ago, lawyers are starting to treat such threats seriously, he said. Gans was shot shortly before he was to appear in Ontario Supreme Court in an action for child support. Sheriff Ambrose said he has received more requests for increased security at the courthouse since the shooting than he has had in the last 18 years All of the lawyers who made the requests were involved in matrimonial disputes, he said.

Mr. Justice Gregory Evans of the Ontario Supreme Court said Monday threats against lawyers have increased because more divorces are before the courts. No progress made TORONTO (CP) Gib Gilchrist, head of the negotiating team nf the United Steelworkers of America, said talks between the union and Inco Metals Co dealt with minor issues Monday. He said the negotiators were trying to "clean up fringe problems" before moving on to wages and other contentious issues. Talks resumed Sunday between Local 6500 and the company in an effort to end a strike which started Sept.

15 at the company's Sudbury plant Victor Pathe, Ontano labor ministry mediator, said there were no new developments In talks Monday. TORONTO (CP) Prime Minister Trudeau told a crowd of Ontario Liberals Monday that he plans to remain party leader because "I like my job." In" the last week. Liberal officials in Toronto have been pressing for the prime minister's resignation to avoid what they say will be probable defeat in the next federal election. However, Trudeau received a 30-sec-ond standing ovation Monday after a speech to about 1,200 party members at a JliO-aplate fund-raising dinner. In his speech, Trudeau said Quebec Premier Rene Levesque is not the most dangerous threat to unity because his position can be challenged.

Canadians who believe Quebec's departure from Canada is inevitable or impossible are a greater threat to unity be-cause their positions cannot be challenged, he said. The prime minister also criticized opposition parties for not revealing their positions on national unity. The opposition accuses the government of using unity as a ploy to avoid issues, such as the economy or unemployment, he said. Officials overpaid OTTAWA (CP) The federal government is paying out an estimated $43.6 million a year in excess salaries because nearly one in six federal public servants is improperly classified for the job being performed, a government study released Monday says. The study by the personnel division of treasury board says about five times as many federal employees are over-classified as are underclassificd.

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