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LOCAL 2A The Times Herald Port Huron, Mich. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1988- DEATHS Teachers strike in Deadly silence Slain judge feared telling police about husband's death threats Phillians, 61, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1988. She is survived by three sons, Robert Thomas, Rodney Warren and Robin Gregory Phillians.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the Gilbert Funeral Home, Algonac. Visiting is 7-9 p.m. today and 1-9 p.m. Thursday.

Jerald Van Alstine Business owner SANDUSKY Jerald Van Alstine, 46, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1988. He was a business owner. Arrangements, by Marsh Funeral Chapel, Sandusky, are incomplete. The Times Herald lists death notices free of charge.

Paid obituaries are below. said she considered filing an injunction to keep Ratliff from harassing her client, but Irons refused to go to police because she feared it could cost her husband his job. Hegarty said similar concerns apparently kept Ratliff's first wife from filing assault charges against him after he allegedly broke into her home in 1975 and struck her repeatedly on the back of the head with a handgun, causing at least three lacerations. The couple were going through a divorce at the time. Hegarty said there had been no other disciplinary problems with Ratliff, 53, a 21-year veteran of the department, until last week's shootings.

After a brief exchange of gunfire with police in the courthouse, Ratliff surrendered. He remains in the Ottawa County Jail on a murder charge. He is suspended without pay from the department and Hegarty said he has recommended to the city manager that Ratliff be fired. Ratliff also allegedly made several tapes after wiretapping Irons' home telephone and "has in his possession tapes or statements made by Carol Irons and a second party that would be detrimental to her reputation as a judge and a candidate for public office," police said in court documents. Hegarty said the department has not yet reviewed all the tapes.

Ratliff also wanted Irons to give him money or assume some of his debts as part of the divorce settlement, Landers said. "There was some pressure, extortion, to attempt to get a better settlement," Landers told The Press. By LISA PERLMAN Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS Evidence of death threats, wiretaps and extortion has been uncovered as police investigate the shooting death of District Judge Carol S. Irons, who police say was slain by her police officer husband. Irons confided in close friends that her estranged husband threatened to kill her, but didn't tell police because she apparently feared provoking him and ruining his career, according to Irons' divorce lawyer and personal friend.

In a search of Officer Clarence D. Ratliff 's home after the Oct. 12 slaying in Irons' chambers, police found a pipe bomb and other potential bomb-making ingredients such as impact explosives, blasting caps and detonation cord, according to warrants returned to Grand Rapids District Court on Monday. Court documents said Ratliff, a former member of the department's bomb squad, had reportedly threatened to kill Irons' former boyfriend with a car bomb. Ratliff apparently had used the pipe bomb for training purposes with other officers, Police Chief William Hegarty said at a news conference Tuesday.

Hegarty wouldn't say if it was against departmental policy for officers to bring such devices home. He said the bomb wasn't strong enough to destroy property. Irons, 40, told her friend and lawyer Diann Landers about the threats in June, Landers told The Grand Rapids Press on Monday. Landers, who was handling Irons' divorce from Ratliff, Irene Herrell MARLETTE Irene Herrell, 74, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1988.

She is survived by a daughter, Dorothy Moore. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Marsh Funeral Chapel, Marlette. Visiting is 1-9 p.m. today.

Florence S. Maitland PORT HURON Florence S. Maitland, 93, died Monday, Oct. 24, 1988. Services will be 11 a.m.

Thursday in the Pollock-Randall Funeral Home, Port Huron. Visiting is 2-4 and 7-9 today. Lillian Phillians NEW BALTIMORE Lillian OBITUARIES Bruce D. Catlin PORT HURON Bruce D. Catlin, 81, died Monday, Oct.

24, Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Karrer-Simpson-Crawford Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert E. Starkey, pastor of First Congregational Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery. Visiting is 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today. Pallbearers will be Dennis Fusee, Bartlett Dickey, Jack Peacock, David Butcher, May-nard Seeney and Charles Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Richard Lloyd, Alex McKinnon, Charles Fox, Joseph Montrose and Simo Pynnonen.

Memorials may be made to First Congregational Church. Willard 'Bud' Jiske MARINE CITY Willard "Bud" Jiske, 82, died Monday, Oct. 24, 1988. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Bower-Rose Funeral Home, Marine City.

The Rev. Howard F. Nielsen will officiate. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Marine City. Visiting is 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

today. Memorials may be made to the Visiting Nurse Association, Marine City Fire Department or to the charity of the donor's choice. Florence S. Maitland PORT HURON Florence S. Maitland, 93, died Monday, Oct.

24, 1988 in Marwood Manor after a brief illness. She was born Feb. 1, 1895 in Port Huron, the daughter of the late Capt. Henry and Sarah Maitland. She was a lifelong area resident.

Miss Maitland was a member of the First Presbyterian Church for 73 years and worked for the Women's Benefit Association for 40 years. She is survived by a brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Gordon R. and Frieda Maitland of Grosse Pointe Farms; a nephew and his wife, Gordon R. and Elizabeth Mainland, Jr.

of Grosse Pointe Farms; a grandniece, Katherine L. Maitland of Huntington Beach, Calif. two grandnephews, Edward W. Maitland of Grand Rapids and Gordon W. Maitland of the University of New Hampshire; several cousins and a dear friend, Jane Nash of Port Huron.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Pollock-Randall Funeral Home, Port Huron. The Rev. Mark P. Thomas of First Presbyterian Church will officiate.

Burial will be in Lakesidg Cemetery. Visiting is 2-4 and 7-9 p.m, today. Pallbearers will be Harry Keeler, Herbert Mclntyre, James P. Adair and Shirley Hart. Memorials may be made te First Presbyterian Church.

Carlisle C. O'Brien FORT GRATIOT TOWNSHIP Carlisle C. O'Brien, 72, died Monday, Oct. 24, 1988. Services will be held at 10 a.m.

Thursday in St. Edwards on-the Lake Catholic Church. The Rev1. Thomas T. Esper, pastor, will officiate.

Visiting is 24 and 7-9 p.m. today in the Karrer-Simpson-Crawford Funeral Home. A rosary will be said at 7:30. p.m. today.

Pallbearers will be O'Brien's grandchildren, Jon, Scott, Gary Deidre and Renee Peters. Drivers treated for injuries after 2-car accident Two people were injured when cars driven by Josefina D. Rios and Christine A. Walters Borgman collided near 10th Avenue and El wood Street about 5:30 p.m. Monday.

Both Rios, 32, of Denver, and Borgman, 31, of 1635 Lyons Port Huron, were treated in Port Huron Hospital and released, city Patrolman Leonard Montoya said. Rios was driving east on Elm-wood Street and Borgman was driving north on 10th Avenue when the accident occurred, he said. City man arraigned for sexual assault A Port Huron man has been charged with a sexual assault involving a 15-year-old girl. Duane C. Reid, 40, of 1104 Minnie Apt.

3, stood mute Tuesday before St. Clair County District Judge Daniel J. Kelly to a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Kelly set bond at $10,000 for Reid pending a preliminary examination Nov. 3.

Reid was arrested by Port Huron police for an offense involving the juvenile in June and July 1987. Man faces charges in home break-in A Port Huron man has been charged with breaking into his home. Mark L. White, 22, who lives with his parents at 503 15th stood mute Tuesday before St. Clair County District Judge Daniel J.

Kelly to a breaking and entering charge. Kelly set bond at $10,000 for White pending a preliminary examination Nov. 3. White was arrested on complaint of his parents for a break-in at their house on Sunday, police said. St.

Clair police seek hit-and-run driver ST. CLAIR City police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who knocked down a utility pole about midnight Tuesday. The vehicle also struck a no-parking sign when it ran for about 300 feet off the west side of M-29 north of Hawthorn Street, police said. "I think it's a pretty good collision for someone to keep on going," Police Chief Joel Gorzen said. Police believe the vehicle was a large pickup, Gorzen said.

Break-ins TUESDAY PORT HURON: 814 Ontario a microwave and Christmas decorations were among items reported stolen. TWO PAIR OF GLASSES OR CONTACTS FOR THE PRICE OFONE! VESSEL PASSAGES Muskegon MUSKEGON (AP) Whitehall teachers this morning joined their striking counterparts in two other Muskegon County districts, union and school officials said. Strikes continued in the nearby Mona Shores and Reeths-Puffer districts. With the addition of Whitehall today, the strikes idled 488 teachers and about 8,700 students in the western Lower Peninsula county. Whitehall's 93 teachers had voted last week to strike this morning if Tuesday night's session failed to produce a new agreement, Superintendent Michael Bozym said.

Those talks broke off shortly before 11 p.m. amid disagreement about health care coverage for the teachers, he said. "(The teachers) aren't in school today," Bozym said. No new talks have been scheduled. The district offered unlimited medical coverage in the first year of a two-year contract, even though its premiums increased 44 percent last year, Bozym said.

But the Whitehall Education Association opposed the district's effort to limit medical coverage in the pact's second year, he said. Bozym advised parents of the Whitehall district's 1,800 students earlier Tuesday to arrange for their childrens' care in case a strike began. A 4-hour bargaining session ended without agreement Tuesday night in Mona Shores, officials said. Campaign Continued from 1A into those races to win them." In the 76th District, that battle has been waged on the air waves. The radio commercials, launched by the Democrats Oct.

20, slam London's child support payment record. London said he never has refused to pay child support and never has missed a payment. He said he has volunteered to have money taken from his wages, and that the court did not have to order him to do so. Docherty has said the state party designed and bought the ads without consulting him. McAnaw is concerned that the high emotional content of aggressive campaign ads can mislead voters.

"What they're all doing is taking some situation and twisting it out of context and providing some context for it, which may or may not be as correct as it might seem. The information may be correct, but the image they wrap around it may be in error," he said. But candidates for public office must be ready for such personal attacks, McAnaw said. "Look at the Bush and Dukakis ads, and I would say the London-Docherty ad is fairly mild," McAnaw said. "That's part of the game.

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