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JOSEPH, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1977 if Woman Really Illinois wants to get away from it all, she and a girlfriend pedal their bikes around town. i i rD A "Js '-4 if MM ft MA By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press Writer aSCO, 111. (AP) In the middle of practically nowhere, this western Illinois hamlet of 130 claims to have the nation's busiest woman. Janice Hickenbottom, 28, is so hard to reach by telephone the main means of contacting her is by ci- tizens' band radior Her CD-handle is "Baby Sister." She works on a corn shelling rig, drives a grain truck, tends bar several nights a week at Tony'sTap and on Fridays fixes what The husband works the midnight to 8a.m: shift at John Deere Harvester and packs a lunch pail prepared by Janice. He also works the Baraks' 80-acre-farm.

Janice helps her father in custom shelling corn for farmers in the area. The rig scoops the cobs from their storage bins and takes off the kernels for use as food for stock or is hauled to a "We average shelling about 2,000 bushels a day. On a busy day we'll shell 5,000 bushels (the charge is about 7 Cents a bushel)." says Janice. "As for working for my dad on the farm 'and shelling, I just don't think it makes any sense to hire help if you don't have to." balls," said Janice, who lives in her greatgrand-mother's house, now 100 years old. "I got married when I was 15.

The next year I got my first job, as a dishwasher. Then I was waitress, then a switchboard operator in Osco, plugging in with a fire station and turning on the fire whistle. Then I worked on an assembly line bundling towels and -shop -finally became the lead lady of the line. About the only time I had off was when I had my children." VHer mother, Mrs. Henry Baraks, says, "She never could sit still." A school bus picks up her sons, Jerry 13, and Donnie, 9.

Lynne, 2, is usually left at a neighbor's house or with her mother. On the CB, her husband, Clarence, is "Illinois Flash," her mother is "Egg Woman," and her father is "Corn Shelter." On "vacation" last month, she and her husband spent 1V4 days at the Farm Progress Show in -Washington, Iowa, On Sundays, when there isn't a special corn shelling run, she and her husband go four-wheeling off the roads in his truck meeting the challenges of mud, steep, rocky hills and other natural obstacles tackled by members of the "Fantastic Four-By-Fours." "I always liked to keep busy, and it just snow- il it -iJ customers say is "the best catfish in the world," bowls once a week, does farm work and is a housewife and mother of three. Sometimes late at night when she omlH City Of Fairpl bm Aided PRO-NURSE PETITIONS: Amy Viernes of Chicago holds petitions outside U.S. District Courthouse in Detroit Wednesday demanding reversal of convictions of two Filipino nurses in VA Hospital breathing failure case. Petitions contain about 30,000 signatures.

Judge Phillip Pratt has under advisement a motion to reverse jxmvictions of Leonora Perez, 33, and Filipina Narciso, 31, both now undergoing psychological tests Iff prison West Virginia AP Wirephoto) tary 's A ll-Male Po licy Creates Flap In GR, Too Education can approve school district boundary changes, it "has absolutely no power under Uie present school code to create a new school distinct. Judge Fox-, overruled McCarger's request that questions not be allowed if they implied the state board could create school districts. Fox replied to McCarger: "White the -Slate Board of Education may not have the specific power of creating school districts, it has the constitutional mandate of leadership and general supervision over school districts." The Fairplain area seeking to incorporate as a city is roughly-bounded on the south and west by the St. Joseph. Riyer, on the north by the City of Benton Harbor, and on the east by the Fairplain Plaza Shopping Center, which is included.

The proposed boundaries are nearly identical to those of the former Fairplain school district w'hich consolidated with the Benton Harbor district in 1965, Rozian told the court that in including St. Joseph, Michigan Lutheran and Lake Michigan' Catholic high schools, said they planned to continue in the Ro- JANICE HICKENBOTTOM 'Baby Sister' Is Busy am 1075 he and other boundary commissioners felt it was "extremely unlikely' the State Board of Education would ever "create a school district to match the boundaries of the proposed Fairplain city. Rozian said the boundary commission has absolutely no power to change school district boundaries. Only the state board can do that, he said. The boundary commission has authority over city, village and township boundaries.

In testimony a day earlier. Dr. John W. Porter, state superintendent of public instruction, supported Rozian. Porter, was asked by Craig Atchinson, counsel for the boundary commission, if incorporation of Fairplain as a city-would facilitate creation of a separate school district.

"As; far as I'm such an action would have no material effect on the school districts whatsoever," Porter (See back page, sec. 1, col. 7) Mrs. Hughes innocent by reason of temporary insanity. Ingham County Circuit Judge Ray C.

Hotchkiss denied a defense motion today seeking a directed verdict on the first-degree murder charge. Greydanus argued unsuccessfully that the prosecution failed (See back page, sec. 1, col. 1) Collins said Miss Zwier was invited to attend club luncheons as a guest but she cannot be designated a Junior Rotarian. John Matthews, affirmative action officer for the city's public schools, said the rejection prompted a review of school policies governing the program.

"The law clearly says we cannpt subject students to different treatment based on sex," he said. Buf while the review is underway, pupils may attend club luncheons. tary program- Each year, the Grand Rapids Rotary Club invites each city high school to nominate two boys as Junior Rotarians. John Collins, president of the club, "It would be meaningless for a woman to lie a Junior Rotarian because, as our Rotary International laws stand now, she could never become a Rotarian." Of Husband GRAND RAPIDS, A local parochial high school has quit the Rotary Club's "Junior Rotarian" program because the all-male service club rejected the school's female nominee. West Catholic High School said the Rotary's rejection of Joan Zwier, a junior, was "morally compromising" and possibly illegal.

The nominee, Al Didion, was accepted. "It's not just a legal question," said Sue Ellinger, a school counselor who made the nominations. "It's morally compromising. How can I tell one student he is eligible for the honor, but that another equally qualified student is not because of her sex?" Benton Harbor High Scfiool dropped out of the Twin Cities Rotary Club program last month because the all-male service club rejected a suggestion that female students also be invited. James Caiidill, the school district's director of communications and Title DC coordinator, said attendance might cost the district $2 million in federal aid.

CaudiU claimed the all-male policy violates Title DC of the federal school-funding act that prohibits schools receiving federal aid from participating in programs that discriminate on the basis of sex. School officials from other Twin Cities school systems, West Michigan May Get Two More U.S. Judges Self-Defense Have BY LARRY MacINTRYE Staff Writer KALAMAZtX) The State Municipal Boundary Commis--sion came under scrutiny Wednesday in the Benton Harbor Schools desegregation trial for the role it played in an effort by Fairplain area petitioners to incorporate as a city. Boundary Commissioner Irving W. Rozian of Plymouth spent most of the day on the witness stand detailing circumstances that resulted in the boundary commission voting four to one to allow the incorporation.

Roziart also contended that incorporation of Fairplain would have benefitted the Benton Harbor school district by maintaining higher property values and reducing white flight from the area. The favorable vote on incor" poration came at a March 14, 1975, meeting in Lansing, but the boundary commission's formal order allowing the incor- education classes. But the key test came on an amendment which would require parental permission before a child could take the class. That would strengthen the bill's current language which requires a parent to take action if he wants his child excluded. Opponents of the amendment, offered by three Republican senators, said it would deny birth control information to the children who need it the most.

A parent who fails to provide sex information at home, they argued, is not likely to be interested enough in his child to make sure he takes the course. The amendment failed, 14-10. Lawmakers pointed out that parents will be notified if birth control is to be discussed in class. poration was never released because law suits were filed opposing it, Rozian said, JTedejrremainsfrozen pending the outcome of the desegregation trial and of a separate suit opposing incorporation filed in Ingham County Circuit Court by the townships of Benton and St. Joseph.

The desegregation trial is beard by UAJHstrtet Judge--Noel P. Fox at the Federal building in Kalamazoo. NAACP Atty. Thomas Atkins has charged in a brief submitted to Fox that the Fairplain incorporation effort was actually a "scheme" to facilitate detachment of the predominately white Fairplain area from the racially mixed Benton Harbor school district. Atkins claimed that incorporation would "further inten-.

sify" racial isolation in Berrien T5unty7 Benton "Harbor and Benton Harbor school district. He asked that the incorporation Deblocked. The NAACP attorney is representing plaintiffs in the class action suit filed on behalf of children and parents of the Benton Harbor district. Atkins has entered into evidence a letter to the dary commission from Herschel McKenzie, former president of the Benton Harbor NAACP chapter. The letter charges that once Fairplain is incorporated, it is likely to immediately petition to the State Board of Education to detach from the GM Execs Lose Knack Of Driving DETROIT (AP) Some New-York executives for General Motors Corp.

have forgotten how to drive, the nation's big-: gest automaker says, so GM is offering to pay for driving lessons. General Motors Corp. is moving about 800 of its overseas staff from the GM Building in New York City to the GM Building in Detroit. "We found that some of the oldtimers and spouses had lived in New York so long that they never learned how to drive," a GM spokesman said. The spokesman said others had driven in the past, but were out of practice.

So as part of a package deal to move to Motown, GM is paying for lessons at "official driving schools" for employees and spouses who request them. HERALD-PALLADIUM PHONE NUMBERS Effective telephone numbers for the Herald-Palladium are: Benton Harbor office, 925-0022: St. Joseph office, 983-2S31. Benton Harbor schobl'district and form itsown district. Atty.

George state officials told the court Wednesday that although the State Board of IRVING W. ROZIAN Defends Boundary Board Killing Called LANSING, Mich. (AP) A psychiatrist testifying for the prosecution says he believes Francine Hughes acted in self-defense when she set the fire that killed her ex-husband. Dr. Lynn Blunt made the admission during cross-examination Wednesday as testimony drew to a close in the seven-day-old trial of Mrs.

Hughes, the defendant in a first-degree murder case that feminists hope to turn into a victory for the rights of battered women. Mrs. Hughes, a petite mother of four, is charged with the murder of James Hughes, the 31-year-old former construction worker who died in a fire March 9 at the Dansville home of his ex-wife. "She was defending herself in a because he (Hughes) had told her he would follow her wherever she went," Dr. Lynn.

Blunt acknowledged under questioning by Mrs. Hughes' attorney, Aryon Greydanus. "She believed that was a real possibility it wasn't just an idle threat. "I do not think her actions took premeditation or planning," he added. Blunt rebutted previous testimony by a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist that the woman was temporarily insane when she set the fire that destroyed her home.

"Mrs. Hughes does not suffer from mental illness as defined by Michigan statute," he testified. "She felt extremely frustrated and pressured by the circumstances she was living under. I certainly would not call that temporary insanity." Temporary insanity was added as a defense during testimony Tuesday. Greydanus contended during his opening remarks that Mrs.

Hughes set the fire to defend herself from the husband who beat her. The jury has the option of finding served by only two judges. Judge Noel P. Fox, the chief judge, and Judge Wendell Miles. The district covers the entire western half of Michigan, stretching from the Indiana border to the Wisconsin border in the Upper Peninsulaj in a five-page letter sent to Rep.

Peter W. Rodino of New Jersey, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, for appointment of three additional judges to serve the district. In addition to the size of the district, Judge Fox cited a backlog of nearly 1,600 cases, many complex cases and an average delay of at least four years before a civil suit comes to trial. The House Judiciary Committee Wednesday approved giving the western district of Michigan two additional U.S. District Court Judges.

If the two additional judgeships are approved by both the House and Senate, then President Carter will appoint the two new judges, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Congressman Dave Stockman's office here confirmed the bill passed the House Judiciary full committee by a 20-13 vote. Stockman's office said the bill' probably wouldn't reach the House until it reconvenes in January. At the present time the western district is Sex Education Vote Due teaching methods. But critics of the bill attempted to further strengthen parents' abilities to keep their children out of such classes.

Those efforts were denounced by supporters of the bill and defeated. One would have required a public vote before a school district could include family planning and birth control in sex Lottery Game Daily Winner DETROIT (AP) The winning number in Wednesday's daily Michigan Lottery game is five- three-four (534). thi final vote in the Senate after backers, repulsed attempts to weaken it. The measure, which would allow discussion of family planning "and birth control methods in sex education classes, has already cleared the House. But it would have to return for agreement in minor changes if it wins passage in the Senate.

While the bill drops Michigan's long-standing prohibition against discussions of birth control, it contains several provisions to attract support of reluctant lawmakers. It does not require schools to hold such classes, lets parents remove their children from them, bans discussion of abortion and requires local advisory boards to review material and LANSING, Mich. (AP) A bill eliminating Michigan's ban on teaching birth control in school classrooms is up for a INDEX SECTION ONE Editorials Page 2 Twin Cities News Page 3 Women's Section Pages 4- Ann Landers Page Page IS SECTION TWO News Roundup Pages 11-19 SECTION THREE Pages 21-26 SECTION FOUR Area Highlights Page 31 Comics, TV, Radio Page 32 Markets Page 33 Weather Forecast Page 33 Classified Ads Pages 34-39 ti -n nmm-wit nil "tiutsmm wall TRIAL CONTINUES: Escorted by her lawyer, Aryon Greydanus, Fran Hughes arrives at Ingham County Circuit Court in Lansing, Michigan Wednesday for her murder trial. Mrs. Hughes is charged with setting the fire in which her ex-husband died March 9.

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