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2A PORT HURON, MICH. Sunday Fb. I. 1987 THE TIMES HERALD Police Courts Port Huron man pleads A Port Huron man charged with torturing a 6-year-old child pleaded guilty Friday in Circuit Court to a lesser charge of child cruelty. Scott R.

Morrison, 23, of 5080 Burman Road, entered Jiis plea before Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oppliger. No sentencing date was set pending a probation department investigation. Bond was Skating Derby postponed again History Continued from Page 1A ern University, Baton Rouge, La. Kirk and Rivers also will participate in a variety show at 7 p.m.

Feb. 14 at the center. Rivers will play in a jazz ensemble during an afternoon of poetry and music at 4 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Museum of Arts and History.

The event is sponsored by the center and St. Clair County Community College students. Black history has been vital to Kirk, a 19-year-old senior from Atlanta. "I would go as often as possible to the Martin Luther King Center" in Atlanta, he said. "Being there, knowing what happened was always very important in my life." Rivers, a 17-year-old junior, said such youth lack belief in what they can achieve.

"They're putting each other down," he said. "They just think they're here for no purpose." But students who appreciate black history "want to put forth effort and learn about something that can help them when they get ready for the world," he said. Rivers and Kirk wish schools regularly taught more black history. "You don't hardly hear about black people existing back then," Rivers said. "What did we do?" WherrKirk asked about it after coming to Port Huron in 1985, "they looked at me kind of strange," he said.

He said black history was sometimes looked at briefly but never explained. "You talked about it and went on to something else," he said. His white classmates knew nothing about black history, he said. "If you mention black history," they look like they don't want to get into it. They figure, 'I'm not black, so I really don't have anything to do with But black history is for whites too, said Bill McGill, president of the Port Huron chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The NAACP will mark its 78th anniversary at 5 p.m. Feb. 22 with a rally at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Port Huron. Other events will include a ligious heritage celebration at 4 p.m. Feb.

8 at Cleveland school, sponsored by the South Park Ministerial Alliance. Third World Educators will give a soul food dinner at 6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the school. i The Black Men's Club of St.

Clair County will have its annual banquet at 6 p.m. Feb. 28 at the school and present an award to an outstanding contributor to the community. No events are needed to stress the meaning of black history to black history class teacher Hazel Leonard and Marguerite Stanley, who coordinates the month's celebration. It was first observed in 1922 as Negro History Week and became Black History Month in the mid-1960s.

When Leonard was in school, history books often omitted pictures and even names of historic blacks, she said. Stanley, the center's fine arts coordinator, said: "I always felt cheated. There's so little you know about your own people." That knowledge can aid black youngsters' growth. "It boosts their morale," Cleveland Principal Yvonne Mal-achi said. "It gives them a sense of where they came from." The student council will present a program every morning during the month.

Cleveland students also will give a variety show and a play about the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Dates are not set. Spirituals and soul food are part of the month's agenda elsewhere in the Port Huron Area School District, curriculum director Bob Beedon said. Michigamme Elementary School students will sing spirituals and write reports after hearing biographies of black leaders.

Holland Woods Intermediate School will have a soul food luncheon to conclude its black studies. Harrison Elementary School will give a quiz on black leaders and award a prize for the highest score. Throughout the district, halls will have displays about prominent blacks. Libraries will feature books by black authors. Social studies classes will discuss slavery.

King's "I Have a Dream" speech will be posted in some libraries. Some schools will have black speakers from the community. Articles in school newspapers, movies and filmstrips, and talks about black leaders over public address systems will be in some schools' observances. But not all students, white or black, are interested. "Some of them are beginning to become more aware," Stanley said.

But others are not because they were not taught at home the importance of who they are and where they came from, she said. guilty to child cruelty continued. Morrison was charged with torturing a 6-year-old BurtehviUe Township boy Jan. 11 in the chad's home. The child was treated at Port Huron Hospital for injuries to his head, face and legs.

The boy was made a temporary ward of Probate Court pending further investigation. "We're not getting anywnere (with the ice)," Dziedzic said. People keep tearing it up every week." He said each time city workers resurface the ice, snowmobilers rough it up with their machines. Organizers might ask the city to put a temporary fence around the rink, Dziedzic said. The derby originally was scheduled for Jan.

11 but mild weather prevented ice forming. Rough ice caused the second and third postponements. Huron, was injured about 6:40 p.m. Friday when he lost control of his car on icy Harris Road near Lakeshore Road in Burtchville Township. His car slid into a ditch and hit a culvert, deputies said.

Stocks, of 5241 Lapeer Road, sought his own treatment. Michele C. Gauthier, 24, St. Clair, was injured about 8:15 a.m. Saturday when she lost control of her car on an icy area of King Road near Meisner Road in China Township and went into a ditch, deputies said.

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It is the first newspaper ever printed on a train. Feb. 11: Thomas Edison was born 140 years ago in 1846. Feb. 12: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S.

president, is born in 1809 in a backwoods cabin three iniles from Hodgenville, Charles Darwin, author of "Origin of the Species," was born on the same day in the same year in Shropshire, England. Feb. 16: George Washington, the first U.S. president, is born in 1732 in Westmoreland county, entertainer Sonny Bono is born in Detroit in 1940. Deaths MaryEllen Currier MARINE CITY MaryEllen Currier, 64, died Thursday, Jan.

29, 1987. She is survived by two sons, Charels M. Currier and John W. Currier, and a daughter, Cathy Ann Moody. Mrs.

Currier was a homemaker. Services are 9:30 a.m. Monday in Bower-Rose Funeral Home, Marine City, and 10 a.m. in Holy Cross Catholic Church. Rosary is 30 p.m.

today. Visiting is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. ioday. fmma Goode LANSING Emma Goode, 101, formerly of Owendale, died Sat- Jirday, Jan. 31, 1987.

Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Agatha Catholic Church, pagetown. I Visiting begins at 7 p.m. today in Littles Funeral Home, Cass pty.

iGrace Edith Duemig I PORT HURON Grace Edith 3)uemig, 83, died Thursday, Jan. 1987. She is survived by her iusband, Frederick J. Duemig. Private services have been Jeld.

Arrangements were by Pol-Hock-Randall Funeral Home. Elsie K. Lisee MARINE CITY Elsie K. Lisee, 64, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1987.

She is survived by her husband, Harry J. Lisee. Cremation has taken place. Memorial services will be announced. Arrangements were by Merlin L.

Trumble Colonial Chapel Funeral Home Marine City Chapel. Carl Edward MacDonald PORT HURON Carl Edward MacDonald, 56, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1987. He is survived by his wife, Martha E. MacDonald.

Mr. MacDonald is a former employee of Sebewaing Industries, Sebewaing. Services are 10 a.m. Tuesday in Mall. Continued from Page 1A shopping center.

But he is progressing on the premise of building the mall. Some local businessmen have been skeptical of Spate's plans. John Wismer, one of the owners of the Court of Flags Mall, Port Huron, said he does not believe that Spate can sign the major department stores that are crucial to a mall. The two-story mall originally was planned as about half the size of the 1.6 million square-foot, two-story Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights. It would contain five anchor stores, an undetermined number of specialty shops and a food court containing several restaurants.

Port Huron is ripe for a mall, Spatz said. Karrer-Simpson Funeral Home. Visiting is 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thomas Adam Pavlich PORT HURON Thomas Adam Pavlich, 64, of 607 Taylor died Friday, Jan.

30, 1987. He is survived by his wife, Mary Anne. Mr. Pavlich was employed by Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, Detroit. Services are 11 a.m.

Monday in St. Stephen Catholic Church. Rosary is 8 p.m. today in Pollock-Randall Funeral Home. Visiting is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today. Harold G. Schermerhorn PORT HURON Harold G. Schermerhorn, 77, of 821 Eighth died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1987.

He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Garth (Billie Dee) Gurnsey, and a son, Robert Harold Schermerhorn. Mr. Schermerhorn was a retired printer for Sherman Laboratory, Detroit. Services are 2 p.m.

Tuesday in Pollock-Randall Funeral Home. Visiting is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. Roy C. 'Pappy' Warren BURTCHVILLE TOWNSHIP -Mr.

Roy C. "Pappy" Warren, 72, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1987. He is survived by his wife, Marion. Mr.

Warren was retired from St. Clair Rubber Co. Services are 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Jowett Funeral Home and 10 a.m. in St.

Mary's Catholic Church. Visiting is 6 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.

Frances E. Weinmann RICHMOND Frances E. Weinmann, 86, of St. Clair Highway, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1987.

She is survived by a son, Edward Weinmann. Services are 11 a.m. Monday in St. Peters Lutheran Church, Mut-tonville. Visiting is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today in Hensch Memorial Chapel Funeral Home and 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday in the church. MARINE CITY Rough ice forced frustrated sponsors to postpone the 33rd annual Skating Derby a fourth time Saturday, maybe until next year. The derby, sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council 856, was scheduled for 1 p.m.

today at Ward-Cottrell Park. It has not yet been rescheduled. Organizers will meet Tuesday to decide if the derby should be rescheduled or canceled completely, said David Dziedzic, a derby official. Accidents See ACCIDENTS, Page 2A deputies said. The driver of the second car, Edward Charles Heckler, 16, of 80521 Henderson, Memphis, told deputies he was driving about 60 mph on Smiths Creek Road and lost control of his car on the icy road.

Both cars went off the road and the Steele car rolled over, deputies said. Steele sought his own treatment, deputies said. Heckler was not injuried. He was ticketed for careless driving, deputies said. Jennie Ann Terzo, 20, and Crystal Lynn Beste, 3, both of 928 Erie Apt.

Port Huron, were injured about 7 p.m. Friday in a two-car accident at South Capac and Gould roads. Terzo told deputies she was unable to stop at the intersection and collided with a car driven by Gary Alvin Schroeder, 32, of 8676 Cork Road, Yale. Terzo and Beste sought their own treatment, deputies said. Schroeder was not injured.

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