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4 STATE eJJOU MICHIGAN'S COMPLETE NEWSPAPER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1975, LANSING, MICHIGAN PRICE-20 CENTS woinson auif reme MWAL court sup wvvi cv-P Sis, til court with two Democrats, three Republicans and one avowed independent. Republican Gov. William Milliken will appoint a successor to Swainson. MILLIKEN REMAINED silent on the question of whether Swainson should resign from the high court following his conviction. Milliken said at a news conference Thursday he would give Swainson about 10 days to decide what to do before making a statement.

Other Republicans, including state Senate Minority Leader Robert Davis of Gaylord and House Minority Leader Dennis Caw-thorne of Manistee said Swainson should resign. The charges of mail fraud and illegal use of the telephone were dropped during the trial. The case against Swainson went back to 1972 when the FBI and U.S. Justice Department launched a multi-pointed inquiry into his alleged moves in seeking a new trial for Whalen. WHALEN'S INVOLVEMENT the case began when he was convicted in the burglary of an Adrian jewelry store in 1969.

He was released on $15,000 bond and reportedly became frantic when it appeared he would have to serve a 7-to-10 year prison term. Trial testimony showed Whalen talked to Wish, who said he knew "The Man" on the Michigan Supreme Court and that a new trial could be obtained for a $30,000 payment. Whalen then went to the FBI and told them of the alleged bribery scheme. Contacts between Wish and Whalen, and meetings between Wish and Swainson. were watched by the FBI, trial testimony showed.

SWAINSON DENIED he ever took a cent in bribe money and also said he never tried to influence his colleagues on the high court in getting a new trial for Whalen. The Supreme Court granted a new trial for the convicted burglar in December 1973. Whalen was convicted again and is out on bond. men and women who have urged me to continue the fight to clear my name, and I shall to the utmost of my ability and resources. However, the law is clear, and, as a person who has always prescribed to the principle of government under law, I am compelled to submit to you my resignation as a justice of the supreme court of Michigan, and I hearby do so.

The day after his conviction, Swainson through his attorney said he had no intention of resigning immediately. Attorney Konrad Kohl said Swainson was "entitled to take a few days off with his wife to think things through." CONVICTED OF conspiracy in the Swainson case was former Detroit bail bondsman Harvey Wish. Swainson, a Democrat, was the first state Supreme Court justice in Michigan history to be convicted of a felony. He was elected in 1960 to a two-year term as governor. He lost in 1962 to Republican George Romney.

Swainson was elected in 1970 to an eight-year term on the high court. THE WORLD War II veteran, who lost both legs when he stepped on a mine, was indicted July 3 on three counts of perjury, one count of bribery conspiracy, two counts of mail fraud and one count of using a telephone for illegal activity. The perjury counts on which he was convicted alleged that Swainson told three lies to the grand jury. Swainson was accused of lying to the grand jury when he denied receiving delivery of a television set from Wish on Oct. 7, 1972; when Swainson denied discussing Whalen's then-pending appeal on the telephone with Wish on Oct.

6, and when the judge denied leaving a phone message for Wish on Oct. 19, 1972, that the Supreme Court had agreed to hear the Whalen appeal. HE FACES five years in prison and a $2,000 fine oq each of the three perjury counts. Swainson's resignation leaves the By The Associated Press Michigan Supreme Court Justice John B. Swalnson resigned Friday five days after being convicted of lying to a federal grand jury.

Swainson made his decision known in a hand-written letter delivered personally to Gov. William Milliken late in the afternoon. Swainson flew to Milliken's hometown of Traverse City. IN EXPLAINING his resignation, Swainson said, "The law is I am compelled to submit to you my resignation as a justice." Swainson added: "I sincerely regret that I must do so, but whatever the results of my appellate procedures I would still be disqualified to continue under law in this office." Swainson, a one-time governor, lieutenant governor and state senator, was convicted of three counts of perjury. HE WAS acquitted of a bribery conspiracy charge.

The perjury conviction stemmed from the grand jury's investigation of a charge that Swainson was part of a $30,000 bribery conspiracy that involved getting a new trial for convicted burglar John Whalen. Whalen was the government's chief witness against Swainson. A COURT spokesman explained that Swainson was resigning under a 1955 law which refers directly to justices and an earlier 1936 attorney general's opinion. The opinion concerned a vacancy of office which occurs when a justice has been convicted of a felony. It said that even when an innocent man is convicted of a felony, he is doubly unfortunate because he must step down.

In his letter to Milliken, Swainson declared: "WE ARE fortunate in this country and in this state to have a government of law and not of men. "I am most deeply indebted to the First grader Angela Palmer is proud of her "lunch Needs new home by June Arts Workshop Ford vows to enter all state primaries BOSTON (AP) President Ford said Friday night he will enter all 30 presidential primaries in 1976. And he vowed to remain in the race until he captures the Republican presidential nomination at the party's Kansas City. convention next August. Ford made his first firm declaration of his primary plans in a pair of speeches to Republican fund-raising receptions, turning them into virtual campaign speeches in his own behalf, although the national GOP and the government, not his own campaign- organization, were paying the tab.

Staff Photoi by BRUCE CORNELIUS art" project so far hard up hasn't done anything. It's kind of unfair to make the school board do more." HENRY MAINTAINS East Lansing residents need the arts workshop, not just to unwind through art expression, but also for the development of potentially good area artists. He says art is a form of recreation. "TV is old hat," he said, "and not everyone can afford snowmobiles, motorcycles, speed boats and other machine-age modes of recreation. "People are going to have to start finding other recreation." Heary maintains that if the city feels it must provide basketball and baseball programs and facilities as a service' to the community, then it should feel responsible for the workshop's future.

THE WORKSHOP currently has some 200 students enrolled in arts and crafts courses taught by part-time staffers. Students range from first graders to senior citizens and from Michigan State University professors to high school students. Offerings include pottery making, oil painting, clay sculpturing, drawing, silk screening, batik, woodworking, weaving or even poetry writing. Some 46 students from Marble School across the street come during their lunch hour every day to paint or engage ir. some other arts or crafts.

Parents pay $30 a term to have their children in "the "lunch art" program. ALTHOUGH HENRY and the workshop board are not declaring war on the East Lansing School District for refusing to renew the lease for a lot longer time, they are at odds on the issue. Henry has two max. points of contention with school administrators. If he could win them over on both counts, he says they would fee; obligated to continue the lease if not indefinitely, through other arrangements at least until the workshop can fend for itself.

First, he points out that a stipulation in the lease prohibited tuition rates that would allow the school to accumulate any savings. It was everybody's intent, including school administrators, that the workshop offer a community service "at cost" to students. "NOBODY EVER planned that we make money." Henry said. "We have existed for three years just breaking even." School administrators agree, but they say it was understood that the center would seek private or public funding to keep going at the end of three years. Since that didn happen, the school board agreed recently to extend the lease another year, until June 30, 1976, Joseph Durkin, business manager for East Lansing Schools said.

DURKIN SAID the district is considering using the Marble School facility to house its special education program, as home base for the city-school activities program, and to allot more space to the library' technical services division occupying the first floor. "Our basic concern now is that after June of next year when our lease expires, we will be no more." says Henry. "The arts workshop has always promoted itself, but we have never been able to pay rent or Dutch businessman safe; IRA guerrillas end siege The district procreated it, incubated it, and now they say the time has come to sever the umbilical cord. BUT HENRY says that could kill the arts center. If the schools won't provide a facility for it, then he feels its the city's responsibility to rescue the operation.

The workshop takes in close to $19,000 a year in tuition fees. Of that about $11,000 is paid out to teachers, mostly part-time staff who also teach art at MSU and Lansing Community College. The rest goes for other operating expenses, including supplies, equipment, telephone and Henry's $4,000 annual salary. The figure is quite low for a full time director's pay, but Henry says it's all the center can afford to pay him. He says he enjoys what he's doing and feels the center provides a needed community service.

Henry, 26, is an English major in his junior year at MSU. He says he manages because he's a vegetarian, doesn't own a car, and shares rooming expenses with friends. THE BUDGET is so tight, Henry-says, that they cannot afford a janitor. So aside from urging teachers and students to pick up after themselves, Henry himself gives the place a thorough going over about once a week. Henry has submitted a proposal for funds from the Michigan Council for the Arts as a third possibility and made proposals to other private and public funding sources.

"We have no support from the city and that is basically what we are looking for." said Henry. "The city of linoleum for his project By YOLANDA TRUILLO Staff Writer It's hard to find anyone who doesn't think the East Lansing Arts Workshop is doing fantastic things for kids and adults alike. But despite all the praises the workshop is about to collapse. It has plenty of enthusiastic students and willing teachers and plenty of potters' wheels and art supplies to go around. But after next June, it may not have a home.

FOR MORE than three years, the East Lansing School District has helped sustain the arts and crafts "school" with a generous SI a year lease, which includes utilities, to the two floors of the old Marble School on Hagadorn Rd. But in June the current lease agreement expires and the district is counting on the extra space for some of its own projects. "We are grateful that they have given us the building for a dollar a year," said Terry Henry, workshop director. "What we are disturbed about is that we might get thrown out before we get another place." THE PROBLEM is the community arts project does not have the economic legs to stand on its own. But school officials say the needs of the school system take priority over continued nursing of the project, regardless of how fine it is.

They say when they entered the lease they felt three years would be plenty of time for the East Lansing Arts Workshop to gam enough public support to survive independently. Ted Schuur cuts up pieces block printing 1 1 (I '-t-'i' 5 'J-il'-v MONASTEREVIN, Ireland (AP) -Kidnaped Dutch businessman Tiede Her-rema was released safely Friday night, ending an 18-day siege of a house in which he was held by two renegade Irish Republican Army guerrillas, Irish police reported. Herrema was abducted Oct. 3 in Limerick. Police said Herrema's captors surrendered and the 53-year-old executive was unhurt.

HERREMA WAS driven away by po "Your president's going to enter the primary in Massachusetts, he is going to campaign in Massachusetts, and I think he is going to win in Massachusetts." Ford said to cheers from a crowd of several hundred. "I am going to be in New Hampshire, Florida and we're going to go right down to the wire in the convention in Kansas City and win there, too," he added. "I'VE NEVER been in a ballgame I didn't play until the last minute of the last quarter." the President said. THE INDUSTRIALIST, who had always been careful to avoid involvement in Irish politics, was abducted by a group of kidnapers. He and the two captors were discovered in a small rowhouse on a public housing estate here 18 days ago.

A police attempt to burst in and rescue him failed. He lived through a nightmare of endurance as prisoner of the two Irish terrorists in the upstairs room of the house under siege by 300 armed troops and police. IN THE JOURNAL PARTLY CLOUDY High in mid 60s. Details page A-2. 58 PAGES 4 SECTIONS Church A-4.

A-5 Classified C-6toC-14 Comics A-8 Crossword Puzzle D-15 Deaths A-2 Editorials, Columns A-6 Horoscope D-15 Markets C-14 Metro News A-2. 3. 8 Scene Sec. Sports C-l to C-6 Theater D-13to 15 TV Listing Sec. TELEHONES HOME DELIVERY WANT ADS INFORMATION 487 4620 487 4711 487 461 1 AT A $100-a-person reception, he said he would enter the New Hampshire.

Massachusetts and Florida primaries. And later at a $15-a-person reception he said he also would enter "every other primary," approximately 30. But he made what Deputy Press Secretary William Greener said was the first definite statement that he would indeed enter the Feb. 24 New Hampshire primary, the March 2 Massachusetts primary and the March 9 Florida primary against his conservative challenger Ronald Reagan. lice to an undisclosed destination.

The release ended an ordeal that began 36 days earlier when he was seized by kidnapers on his way to work at the Dutch-owned Ferenka steel works in Limerick, of which he is managing director. Ten minutes after the Dutchman came out of the siege house, his kidnapers emerged with police and were driven away. Eddie Gallagher. 28, waved his fist as he emerged. His 19-year-old girl associate, Marian Covle, followed behind.

manding money, scoops it up and flees on foot into the MSU campus when he's working East Lansing or into the University of Michigan campus when working Ann Arbor. ANOTHER THING that's similar in the cases he's gotten away each time. And if he's getting the average amount of money for a bank robber, he's about $12,000 richer by now. In East Lansing, First National Bank has been hit twice. Friday F.ast Lansing State Bank at Abbott and Grand River was his target.

In Ann Arbor, he's spread his business around to different banks in three cases and the same one in two. Friday's holdup was the same old storv. The man in his 20s handed a teller Concluded on page A-3 v. V' ') Bank robber finds success in state By DAN POORMAN Staff Writer You gotta admit one thing the guy-is getting darned good at what he does. Just how good, the people who know won't admit.

But he is successful. "He" in this case is a bank robber that police and FBI officials think is responsible for eight successful bank jobs since July including one Friday in East Lansing. "It'S GETTING pretty embarrassing," one FBI man remarked, and that feeling probably is shared by Fast Lansing police who saw their record of no bank holdups in 1974 soar to four so far this year. All eight of the holdups are the same. He goes into a hank near a college pushes a note at a teller de 4 1.