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Mostly cloudy Friday, 40 percent chance of rain or snow showers, highs around 40. Upper Peninsula: Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday with a chance of light snow. Lows tonight in the 20s, highs Friday in the 30s. THE MOON New First Full Last March 21 March 29 April 5 April 12 oa mow lowem a.m. EST.

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Ms no cloudy 4529 0.13 Traverse City cloudy 5536 0.6 Snow Friday from the Southwest to the National northern Plains. Wide-spread rain and showers are expected from the Southwest to fOreCaSt the Northeast and into the centeral Gulf. St Louis St Pott-Tampa Salt Laka City San Francisco Washington .15 .12 Reagan. From A-1 Hospitals. From A-1 People in the News hospitals to give the reports to their boards as soon as possible.

Community President C. Dennis Barr and Leila President Donald F. Ryan both were out of town and could not be reached for comment It was uncertain this morning whether the hospital boards, which met separately Tuesday and Wednesday, would call special meetings to review the reports. Mercy Health Systems President Edward J. Connors, who submitted the report, also could not be reached this morning.

Mercy Health Systems is the parent firm of Sisters of Mercy Health which owns Leila and Lakeview General. Both firms are based in Farmington Hills. Contacted because Kellogg Co. is one of the two major industries represented on the committee, Joseph Stewart, vice president for public affairs, said the entire community, not only industry, would benefit from re- duced health-care costs. "We think the proposal addressed the critical issues that must be dealt with in order to achieve a cost-effective and quality health-care system for the greater Battle Creek community," he said.

The Mercy Health Systems report, he said, also addresses ways of encouraging people who now leave the community for health care to stay here. Members of the committee are: Robert deS. Couch, a retired General Foods executive and Community Hospital board member, Robert L. Creviston, Kellogg Co. vice president of personnel; Andrew Patullo, a retired W.K.

Kellogg Foundation official; Judge Ronald M. Ryan; doctors Charles Seifert, William Comai, Robert Sparks and John R. Young and Hamilton, Barr and Ryan. Staff Writer Ron Lietzke contributed to this report Later, speaking to students and faculty at St. John's University in nearby Queens, Reagan offered to compromise with the Senate by cutting defense spending "in non-critical tfti." Tve told the Senate leadership tfesrt I'm wining to consider more defers taking in non-critical areas," "But 1 cannot compro-mte the defense programs that tft villi Ut oar iecurity." kftuttr the domestic spending cm tat demanded, Reagan said: "If fcve learned anything, it is that the government that is big enough to give you everything you want i mxt likely to simply take everythjrig you've frt.

"And that's not freedom; that's servitude. That isn't the way Americans were meant to live." The president also received an honorary doctorate from the school, the nation's largest Roman Catholic university. The budget battle with Congress is the next major item on the president's agenda, with his lobbying blitz for the MX missile behind him and the fight over renewing aid to the "contra" rebels in Nicaragua still weeks away. economy will be free to expand to its full potential, driving the bears back into permanent hibernation," Reagan said. "That's our economic program for the next four years we're going to turn the bull loose In Wall Street jargon, a "bull" market is upbeat, while a "bear" market is in decline.

The president noted that Senate Republicans are trying to put togtfh' er a package of spending reduction "and they are going to need all or our support and encouragement in the coming weeks." Reagan did not mention, however, that the Republ-can-led Senate Budget Committee recently rejected his budget plan. Instead, Reagan challenged Congress again, to "make my day," saying that if it is not willing to make the cuts he has asked, he would provided Congress gives him line-item veto power over specific items in appropriations bills. The budget panel has suggested cutting Reagan's defense spending request while freezing Social Security's cost-of-living clause and granting only some of the domestic spending cuts the administration has requested. Goetz ond grand jury charged Goetz with four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of first-degree reckless en-dangerment and one count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Goetz said he shot the youths in self-defense after one of them "demanded" $5.

One of the teen-agers said he told the second grand jury he was merely trying to panhandle Goetz. "It's probably all for the best. Everything now should come out in the open, with time, and that will end the controversy," Goetz said. Slotnick said he would move to dismiss the new indictment "because it was brought improvidential- From A-1 Boy. from Lansing was to be brought in to assist in the search.

A net set up at the Augusta bridge Wednesday afternoon was to be pulled this morning and be placed near the Helmer Road Bridge. Battle Creek Police Sgt. Joe Newman said the search will continue until nightfall and resume Friday, if necessary, but probably not involve as many people. Among those participating in the search are Bedford Township police and fire departments, Springfield police and Kalamazoo County Sheriffs Department and dive team. treated and released at Leila Hospital.

Skelding was wearing an air tank, but either did not wear the mouthpiece when he dove or it was ripped from his mouth by the current. He was attached to safety ropes held by fellow divers on both sides of the river. The search was called off about 7: IS p.m. because of darkness and was resumed about 8 a.m. today with REACT members, Calhoun County Sheriff deputies, police and firefighters walking both sides of the river.

Scuba divers were standing by A Michigan State Police helicopter A JUDOt should be censured for his comments about a controversial rape trial, his trip to a legal Nevada brothel and saying he'll seek re-election just to "raise a little more a review panel in Detroit ruled. The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission on Wednesday recommended that the state Supreme Court publicly censure 54th District Court Judge Daniel Ttchirhart of East Lansing. Tschirhart. 43, gained national attention after dismissing charges against seven men accused of gang raping a Michigan State University coed in 1982. Tschirhart ruled the woman's testimony was not credible.

A circuit court judge reinstated charges against the men, who were acquitted last March. Tschirhart was arrested April 17, 1984, in Reno, and later acquitted on charges he defrauded a cab. driver of his fare to a legal brothel. JOHN Z. De LOREAN and his attorney maintained a grim silence in public during a five-hour visit to the federal courthouse in Detroit, as they moved between the grand j.ry room, a judge's courtroom and the U.S.

attorney's office. Wednesday's proceedings were closed to the public, and federal court officials refused comment on what transpired during the former automaker's appearances. The grand jury is investigating De Lorean's financial dealings and those of his defunct motor company. A BABY-SITTER'S memory of a picture she saw hanging on a wall two years ago led to Adams Hicks' homecoming 1 1 years after his father took him at age 17 months and vanished, the youth's mother said. "I didn't think we'd ever get to this point," Marta Jo Smith said as she and her son arrived Wednesday in Denver.

Adam's father, Michael Hicks, divorced his wife and lost custody of the boy in 1 974. On Oct. 9 of that year, Hicks took Adam for a visit and never returned. A three-year investigation lead nowhere. In January, Mrs.

Smith learned of Child Keepers, a Florida organization that continues kidnapping investigations police have abandoned. Child Keepers printed and distributed posters of Adam and filmed a television segment showing a baby picture. A day after the first TV ad ran, Adam's former babysitter called Child Keepers. The picture, she said, was hanging on Michael Hicks' living room wall two years ago. DAVID MARRIOTT, a man who once claimed to have evidence exonerating Claus von Bulow says he'll give Rhode Island authorities tape recordings that incriminate the socialite facing retrial on charges he tried to kill his wife.

Marriott, 26, said Wednesday that Rhode Island authorities have promised him immunity from prosecution when he delivers the 30 hours of tape recordings today. Von Bulow faces retrial April 8 on charges he attempted to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin. He was convicted of the charge but the Rhode Island Supreme Court overturned the verdict last year, saying certain evidence should have been suppressed. SHELLEY LONG, who stars in NBC's "Cheers," gave birth Wednesday in Los Angeles to a 6-pound, 14-ounce girl named Juliana, an NBC spokeswoman said. Juliana is the first child for Long and husband Brace Tyson.

PAUL MCCARTNEY'S publishing firm, MPL Communications has asked a federal judge in Kansas, City, to dismiss a suit by three brothers who claim singer Buddy Holly copied their song for his 1957 hit "That'll Be the Day." Composers Arthur, Al and Allaire Homburg, said they got a copyright in March 1957 for a song called, "That'll Be the Day" and that Holly heard them perform it that month in Lawton, Okla. QUEEN ELIZABETH II has given formal assent to a special law permitting a 29-year-old truck driver to marry his mother-in-law, the speaker of the House of Lords announced. The truck driver, Alan Monk, has been seeking permission to marry Valerie Hill, 48, since he divorced her daughter, Jeanette, in April 1983. DEATH: Victor Herman, 69, who spent 18 years in and out of Siberian prisons and who later wrote a book on his experiences that was the subject of a 1982 televsion movie, died Monday in Southfield. Herman was 16 when his father took the family to the Soviet Union to take a job at an auto plant in Gorky.

In 1938, he was arrested for alleged "counter-revolutionary activities" and spent most of the next 18 years in various Siberian prisons before his final release in 1956. Compiled from The Associated Pros From A-1 ly by the district attorney for partisan reasons." "The chief judge has said a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if the district attorney wants it to," Slot-nick said Wednesday. "Bernie Goetz today turned out to be a ham sandwich." Attempted murder is a felony with a maximum penalty of up to 25 years in prison. The assault and weapons possession charges carry up to 15 years, and the reckless endanger-ment charge carries up to seven years in prison. Goetz faced up to seven years in prison on the felony gun possession indictment handed up by the first grand jury.

Suit From A-1 Shooting spree described Tho Associated Press Mo. Other charges against them include kidnapping, battery and robbery. Christie identified the three defendants as the strangers he saw on the elevator grounds Feb. 13. He said Miss Dunn was sitting in the driver's seat of a dark colored car that Re-meta and Hunter, holding guns, were standing beside.

Christie said he saw Hunter confront elevator employee John R. "Rick" Schroeder, 29, of Levant Christie said someone started shooting out the scalehouse windows and he was shot in the shoulder. As he turned, Christie said he saw Re-meta standing several feet away holding a handgun. Christie said he either fell or dove behind his desk and hid. COLBY, Kan.

A northwest Kansas grain elevator manager described how he was shot after seeing one of his employees abducted during a shooting spree last month that left three people dead and two wounded. Maurice Christie, 61, manager of the Bartlett and Co. elevator at Levant, testified Wednesday during the first day of a Thomas County District Court preliminary hearing for three defendants charged with killing two hostages and wounding Christie and a police officer. Charged with two counts of first-degree murder are Daniel E. Re-meta, 27, of Suttons Bay, Lisa J.

Dunn, 1 8, of Traverse City, and James C. Hunter, 33, of Amoret Circuit, District and Probate court administrators said they have asked their attorneys to review the new suit. Circuit and District judges have issued orders for higher pay while the Probate Court has continued to negotiate with the board over differences in appropriations, but Gray said the suit names the Probate Court to prevent more administrative orders if talks end. "We are rather perplexed by the county's whole approach to the matter," Albaugh said. "We hope this will have it back on track for a speedy resolution." Commissioner Clarence "Mike" Bowers, D-Albion, speaking for the board Wednesday said, "Our actions Monday were designed to take the clerk and the treasurer out of the dispute and their actions by filing suit against us today belies that they really want out." He said the county board continues to believe the courts are attempt-ing "an unlawful run on the taxpayers treasury and we consider that a very serious thing." The board Monday asked that the state Supreme Court rule on the legality of the local courts' administrative orders.

Neither commissioners, Gray nor Rosenbaum are sure what effect the dispute will have when the county attempts to pay its employees on April 4. Bank officials were not available for comment. Controller Adie sent a memo to employees, dated March 26, stating the bank will "dishonor any check dated after March 25 which does not bear the three authorized signatures." If a check bearing only two signatures is cashed or deposited and the bank dishonors that check, any financial injuries would be borne by the payee, it said. Burch said a similar memo will be sent to county suppliers. courts have presented Gray and Rosenbaum with administrative orders directing higher payments.

The county board has issued resolutions and then sued the clerk and treasurer in an attempt to prevent payment of the court-ordered salary levels. On Monday, the board, trying to control payments, said the controller would prepare the payroll and either board Chairperson Marian Burch, D-Battle Creek, or Finance Committee Chairperson Robert Huntington, R-Battle Creek, must sign all payroll checks with Gray and Rosenbaum. Circuit Court Administrator Jeffrey Albaugh promptly wrote Gray and Rosenbaum saying the courts expect salary payments to comply with the higher levels ordered by the judges. Gray and Rosenbaum said they believe that to allow additional signatures on the payroll checks "would be abrogating our responsibilities under the Constitution and Statues of the State of Michigan, and we believe it would be unlawful." They have refused to sign new authorization cards on file at the bank. Some county officials said that could jeo-pordize future bill payments, including the April 4 payroll for 500 county employees.

In their suit seeking relief, Gray and Rosenbaum ask that a judge decide what they must do about the payroll, issue a temporary restraining order until the decision is reached and appoint independent counsel for them. After Calhoun Circuit Court judges disqualified themselves in the pay dispute, Judge Randall Tah-vonen of Clinton County was assigned to the case. Gray and Rosenbaum have asked Attorney Charles Robison of Albion to represent them and will ask Tahvonen to schedule an immediate hearing. Update BagsssPk Enquirer Vol. 85, Issue 250 (USPS 045-400) EMy-ftfth Year of PiMcatlon ruoitsnuo wosnooy Mongo and Saturday and Sunday monungi by Federated PubNcattans kic 159 W.

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WZZM 'King off Newaygo' libel suit dismissed WHITE CLOUD A 1 2 million libel suit filed by a real estate agent against a Grand Rapids television station has been dismissed by a judge who said there was not enough evidence to support the allegation. The suit was filed four years ago in Mecosta-Osceola Circuit Court by former real estate agent Calvin Deitz, who claimed the television station libeled him in a series calling him the "King of Newaygo." Zcnderven cuts profit projection after roviow GRAND RAPIDS Zondervan a leading publisher of Bibles and religious books, said today it win more than double reductions in its profits as a result of an internal review of its finances. The company had estimated the charge aganst earnings would total between $4.5 million and $5 million. The new estimate would reduce earnings by between $11 million and $13 million. Krcdcfy reportedly tes with Fcnxhhcn clda TRIPOLI, Libya Col.

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