Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 3

Metro Mews LANSING STATE JOURNAL May 24, 1 984 Oam builders pDyggSng Ingham drains Metro Roundup If negates the whole reason behind having draining ditches to carry away excess A dam in one ditch has created a pond about 3 feet deep' when it normally would be 4 to 6 inches deep this time of year, he said. THE STRUCTURES aren't elaborate: They're anything folks can get their hands on that they can toss into a ditch or creek, Brown said. Bruce Porter, chief of engineering and inspection, said one dam in Au-relius Township, for example, is made of stones. Another on the Raby Drain in Meridian Township was for it too," he said with a hint that he hopes a similar fate will befall today's crop of dam builders. Brown said it's not unusual for property owners to build dams in' drains passing through their property to create ponds for irrigation.

SUCH DAMS, built without per-' mission or not built to drain commission standards with permission, are illegal, he added. But he also said that normally, property owners remove the blockages when they are-told that they are illegal and don't cause water flow problems like the makeshift dams do. made of logs tossed into the waters. Crews have hauled logs out of the Raby Drain on several occasions, and that's getting expensive. This latest blockage is expected to cost as much as $800 to remove because it has backed up enough water to make it muddy around the drain, and that means the contractor hired to do the work will have to lay mats down for his heavy equipment to work on and it all adds up.

BROWN THINKS it's teen-agers tossing the material into the drains and even admits he did the same sort of thing when he was a youngster. "Of course I got my fanny tanned EMERGENCY HOTLINES Housing: 4874051 Housing: 424-7431 (Evening ovwnigttf) Food: 372-6330 (t p-m. Moo Fri) Enorgy: 1-eCO232S50 (S ji-S p.m. Mort-Frf) Ingham Rural Emsrgsncy Outreach: 676-1 23 I C-C breakfast slated A proposed state income tax rollback, state finances, area economic development, and the voter's choice amendment will be topics for a legislative roundtable breakfast Friday sponsored by the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce. Expected to take part are State Sens.

Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt and Harry DeMaso, R-Battle Creek, and State Reps. Ernest Nash, R-Dimondale, and Frederick Dillingham R-Fowlerville. The breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Midway Motor Lodge, 7711 W. Saginaw Hwy.

and the cost is $5. Reservations are required through the chamber, 487-6340. Officer promoted East Lansing police officer Theodore J. Foster was promoted to the rank of sergeant on May 21. He nas Deen with the depart ment since March 1968, when he joined as a parking officer.

Later the same year, he became a patrol officer. Foster, 38, brother of East Foster Lansing Police Chief Robert Foster, is a graduate of Northern Michigan University, holds a masters from Michigan State University, served with the Navy in Vietnam and has received awards for bravery and meritorious service with the police department. He lives with his wife, Lynda, and two sons in Williamston. Body found in gravel pit State police say it will be late today before they know what caused the death of a man whose body was found in some backwaters for the Grand River Wednesday afternoon. Papers on the body indicate it may be a 28-year-old Lansing man who was last seen May 11.

The body was spotted by a couple fishing in what was an old gravel pit and is not connected to the river west of Waverly Road near Sandhurst Drive. is By DAN POORMAN Staff VrYrtw They've been busy as little beavers, these kids who are apparently building dams in Ingham county drains. And that's causing problems for the county drain commission. "When the weather gets warm and kids run out of things to do, they go out and construct dams," commission inspector Dick Brown lamented. THE DAMS back up water in the drainage ditches.

That raises the water table, and that causes muddy fields and could even cause flooded basements. Roof buckles as fire engulfs parks building Fire caused an undetermined amount of damage to a Lansing Parks and Recreation storage building and equipment Wednesday evening. Firefighters were called to the building at 713 E. Shiawassee, south of Oak Park, at about 6 p.m. Douglas P.

Finley, director of the paries and recreation department, said the building was used to store tractors and herbicide sprayers Officials said the fire apparently started in or around a screened-in work and storage area inside the cement building, The fire buckled the steel roof. The building had been locked at 5 p.m. No one was inside. Because of the chemicals stored in the building, firefighters wore breathing apparatus as a precautionary measure; however, none of the chemical containers was damaged. Neither damage estimates nor cause has been determined.

Jim, Susan When Susan Wall accepted a promotion in the Hyatt Regency hotel chain that included a transfer from Lansing to Boston, her husband, Jim, gave up his job as housing director at Michigan State University to follow her. The Walls were featured in a story in Wednesday's State Journal about families making that career decision. The Walls made their decision to move last fall. On Tuesday, Jim Wall Mid-Michigan Roundup taken out of the building after the new jobs dents effectively because I know them well," he said. When the Walls decided to move, they did not know what type of job Jim could expect to find.

He said he loved his position as head of the largest housing program in the country and hoped he would find something he liked equally. The Walls said they were prepared to take a demotion, realizing jobs like that are hard to find. However, Jim said his new job is a definite career advancement. 'truth meeting reduced the debt retirment levy .02 of a mill, to .45 mills, due to the rising assessments. State law requires that such millage rates be reduced when assessments rise because only a certain amount of cash needs to be collected to pay off building bonds, he said.

Canning classes slated OVID Reservations must be made with the Clinton County Extension Service by June 1 for a series of six three-hour classes on canning and preserving fruits and vegetables. Classes will be held at the Leonard Elementary School LCC trustees reaffirm 2-mills in State Roundup Police look for gunman East Lansing police are searching for the man who robbed four people while wearing a skeleton mask and wielding a Magnum handgun in Whitehills Park Wednesday. Police say the victims were in the park, near Old Mill and Pebble Brook Lane, around 3:15 a.m. when they were approached by a man described as a white male, about six feet tall, weighing 200 pounds, and wearing a white sweater, blue jeans and a skeleton's mask. The man ordered them to hand over their wallets and other valuables, then fled into a wooded area.

Canine units from Eaton County were called in and about 5 a.m., police recovered the mask, gun and clothing from a spot in the park not far from where the robbery occurred. Recital tonight The East Lansing High School senior solo recital will be held at 8 p.m. today in the high school auditorium. Performing will be Jeanie Aitken, flute; Marcus Jones, string bass; Martin Kiersenbaum, piano; and Laurel Kirby, voice. John Bailey will perform a concerto for trumpet by Arutunian; Malcolm Mead will play a concerto for flute by Beethoven; and Karrie Kassomoto will play Beethoven's concerto for piano.

The East Lansing High School Symphonic Orchestra will accompany. Admission is free and refreshments will be served following the program. starting June 5. The fee is $30 which includes notebook and materials. Included will be pressure and water bath canning, freezing and pickling and techniques on how to share food preservation information via demonstrations at farm markets and fairs.

To register call 224-3288 Recall petition OK'd BALDWIN (AP) The Lake County Elections Commission has approved petition language for the recall of Sheriff Robert Blevins, a recall commission member says. The petition alleges Blevins misused county cars and gasoline, allowed mistreatement of jail inmates, and inadequately trained deputies, said recall committee spokesman Vincent Arnold of Baldwin. Blevins has blasted the petition drive, saying it is a smokescreen to cast the sheriffs office in a bad light during an election year. The recall committee will have days to collect 411 signatures to have a recall election scheduled. State to file suit The attorney general's office says it will file suit against the owner of a Livonia gasoline station for allegedly selling tainted fuel.

Gasoline sold in March by Leon Stone at Stone's Union 76 station contained too much gum residue, according to Assistant Attorney General Fred Hoffecker. About 50 car owners have filed insurance claims, charging the gasoline ruined their engines, costing them up to $3,000 to repair. Stone has 10 days to reach an agreement or face civil action. His insurance company, American States Insurance, has not been responsive. Hoffecker said.

Lottery number: 470 Wednesday's DaiIy-4: 1987 Wednesday's Card Game; Queen of hearts King of diamonds Oenise Aime Gauss, 23, of Lansing: James Richard Prister, 22, of Dearborn Heights, and Suzanne Louise Sweelev, 25, of Okemos. James Lynn Page, 24, and Rebecca Lynne Sanborn, 22, both of Hoslett. James Karl Herbert, 22, of Waltham, and Lisa Lynn Conn, 20, of Lansing. Paul David Schafer, 21, ond Tamra Sue Hew-son, 19, both of Lansing. Charles Edwin Slamer, 30, of East Lonsing, and Maureen Sue Green, 26, of Lansing.

Clyde Larry Collins, 29, and Lea Andrea De-' Long, 25, both of East Lansing. Roy E. Davis, 23, of St. Joseph, and Anna Maria Duarte, 19, of Lansing. Jeffrey Robert Loing, 25, of Lonsing, and Cynthia Ruth Loomis, 24, of Laingsburg.

Joseph Lee Amundsen, 22, and Jean Andrus Norfleet Fitch, 33. and Arie Lee Fitch, 31, both of Lansing. storage shed fire was doused. Teen to get Red Cross' top award A Grand Ledge teen-ager will be presented with the American Red Cross' highest award today for saving her grandfather's life. Vicki Van Sloten, 15, will receive the Certificate of Merit at the Grand Ledge Michigan Week Awards Dinner.

Van SIr ten's grandfather began choking' on a piece of food at home Jan: 23, and was saved when she ap-' plied the first aid maneuvers she had learned at the Red Cross to. clear his airway. The award ceremony will be at 7:30 tonight in the Grand Ledge High School cafeteria: The award has been presented f.o less than 10,000 people since its inception in 1928. ENTERTAINMENT CENTER 1 Tractors and sprayers were Wall land landed a job in Boston with Touche Ross one of the Big Eight accounting firms, where he will be director of recruiting. "I'm excited," he said.

"It's a new challenge. It'll keep me in close contact with students where my formal training is." Although he's going from a university to an accounting firm, he will still be dealing with academia, just from a different angle, he said. "I think I'll be able to recruit stu tax levy, the millage rate would have dropped .1 to 1.9 mills. Under state law, governmental units have to hold truth-in-taxation hearings if rising property assessments will bring in more revenue. Bouck added that the LCC board 323-9535 from McDonald's Friday Saturday records every FtiPth but we're "'ujy with 25-inch consoles.

70 fih THEY LAST! 7 f0 'SAVE 5-40 I I TV's and Bl III 1 11 111 1 II Video Recorder Lansing Community College trustees reaffirmed the college's 2-mill operating levy during a special "truth-in-taxation" meeting Wednesday, according to a LCC spokesman. Spokesman Robert J. Bouck said that had the board not reaffired the 3930 W. SAGINAW West of Waverly Across We've set sales month since August, still over stocked $100,000 of SAVE WHILE foi Warranty covers Curtis Dingell seeks re-election WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, has filed for reelection to a 16th term in the House.

"I intend to use my position and strength to help revitalize the American economy, to restore employment lost in the recession, and to create new job opportunities through a renewed economic and trade policy," said Dingell, dean of Michigan's congressional delegation. "Economic stability and jobs are the most important issues facing our state and the nation." Dingell, 57, a Democrat, was 29 when he succeeded his father, the late John Dingell, in Congress in 1955. The commerce committee deals with issues ranging from public health and Medicare to energy, railroads, communications and automotive issues. Blood samples taken TROY (AP) Court-ordered blood samples have been taken from the husband and three children of heiress Carol Kresge DeAr-ment, who has been missing since Oct. 26, 1983.

Troy police, on Wednesday used a search warrant issued by Troy District Judge William Bolle to obtain the blood samples as a possible clue to the woman's disappearance, police said. The tests may help authorities determine if blood found in the trunk of Donald DeArment's 1978 Mercedes was that of his estranged wife, police said. FBI technicians believe they can hnk blood to a mother by analyzing the blood of her husband and children with 99 percent accuracy, said Oakland County Proesecutor L. Brooks Patterson. The blood samples will be sent to the FBI crime lab in Washington, Patterson said.

Vital Statistics Marriage Licenses Edward Wheeler Clark, and Kattiie Lee Oberlin, 25, both of Lansing. Thomas Richard Holstine. 22, ond Pewv Ann Brick, 24, both of Okemos. Robert J. Taylor, 39, ond Kav Lvnn Williams, Hoslett.

Raymond Edward Doyle, 56, of Lansing, and Merle Bertho Burtraw, 46, of East Lansing. Michael La Vern Bivins, 18, of Greenville, and Michelle Lee-Ann Heinig, 17, of Lansing. Edward Henry Hodge, 73, ond Lilian Ruth Cooper, 54, both of Lansing. Gary Scott Freeman, 37, of East Loosing, and Barbara Sue Softies, 31, of Hoslett. Jeffery Lee Howard, 22, and Nancy Lynne Bashore, 21, both of Lansing.

Louis M. Grohom, 57, and Mildred June both of Lansing. Arthur Gollegos, 25, ond Cathryn Sue Merig-noc, 26, both of Lonsing. Roger Merle Binns. 22, of Lake Odessa, and 90 Matties Curtis cj2 Jtv IliillllWlalhes PHONE SALE HOURS Thursday 10 to 10 to 9 10 to 7 1 HOME S- 5.