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25C FINAL EDITION 28 PAGES 2 SECTIONS BENTON HARBOR ST. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1982 lliiilliillmioili Votes Likely Out Restoring Death Pemaky I 'v A 1 i I' Jt' ly'M h- 1 f. jif: i Tuchinsky, co-director of the Michigan Citizens Lobby, prime sponsor of the petition drive to more sharply limit the fuel surcharges. Tuesday's petitions bring to seven the number of issues to be certified for November's election. The others are designed to: Set mandatory minimum staff levels for state police and protect officers from budget cuts and layoffs.

Call for a freeze on the manufacture and sale of nuclear weapons. Prevent lenders' from forcing property owners to pay off mortgages when homes are sold to new owners. Such due on sale clauses have been routinely written into loan contracts but only, lately enforced. For the first time since 1978, tax-cut zealot Robert Tisch did not collect enough petition signatures to place a proposal on the ballot. He is running for governor.

The Legislature still has until Sept. 3 to place more proposals on the ballot this year. Meanwhile, William Milliken signed a bill sending another utility-related proposal to the November baUot. Supported by utilities, the plan passed by the Legislature calls for new limits on fuel charges now added to natural gas and electric bills. Several consumer groups say the proposal will compete with one they have placed on the ballot via petitions.

"It's a sham," said Joseph INDEX SECTION ONE Editorials Page 2 Twin Cities News Page 3 Women's Section. Pages 4-6 Ann Landers Page 6 Obituaries Page 14 SECTION TWO Area Highlights. Page 15 Sports Pages 16-17 Comics, TV, Radio 24 Page 25 Weather Forecast Page 25 Classified Ads 26-27 SUPPLEMENTS Sears 12 Pages Jewel 4 Pages Walgreen's 8 Pages 1 i iir.KVC DEATH DRIVE LIVES: A half hour before deadline, Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson turns in petitions Tuesday to place the question of capital punishment before Michigan voters in November. Patterson's proposal was the last of seven to apparently qualify for this year's ballot.

(AP Laserphoto) By CYNTHIA KYLE Associated Press Writer LANSING, Mich. (AP) A staunch supporter of capital punishment predicts Michi-, gan voters will overwhelmingly put the death penalty back on the books for the first time in 136 years. "We'll see in excess of 70 percent voting for it," Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson said. The law-and-order Republican gubernatorial candidate gave state election officials 310,000 petition signatures Tuesday to place the death penalty question on Michigan's November election ballot.

He had been gathering support for the drive since 1979. The proposal will ask that judges and juries be allowed to select death as the penalty for first-degree murder in Michigan. Some 286,000 signatures must be certified as those of registered voters. Michigan outlawed the death penalty in 1846 the first state in the nation with fsuch a prohibition. The ban is now part of the state's 1963 Constitution.

Also filing for a ballot spot Tuesday were two groups backing a proposal to make the state Public Service Commission an elective office. The powerful three-member panel which regulates utilities and trucking now is appointed by the governor. The drive to make the office elective was spearheaded by the Michigan Coalition on Utilities and Energy and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Both groups have been critical of PSC-approved rate increases. They turned in boxes of petitions with 437,000 signatures.

Winning Numbers DETROIT (AP) The winning number in Tuesday's daily Michigan lottery drawing was six-one-one (611). The winning number in Tuesday's Daily-4 Michigan lottery drawing was nine-seven-seven-zero (9770). 1 GAINESVILLE SINKHOLE: A 50-foot deep sinkhole swallowed a 1982 Oldsmobile at the Maracaibo Manor Apartments in Gainesville, Monday evening. The 10 by 12-foot hole occurred shortly after 6:45 p.m. and maintained a steady stream of spectators all day Tuesday.

Officials on the scene don't know what to expect next from the sinkhole. (AP Laserphoto) Armed Men Seen On Singer's Land 1 Jl-- at' 4 1 Minzey said, but the men said nothing and continued to stand at the edge of the woods. Minzey said that when police arrived, the men had left. A search of the area revealed a tent in woods about 500 yards behind Shaw's house, Minzey said, but it is not known if it had been left there by the intruders or by people who camped there over the July 4th holiday. Minzey said the house and yard at Shaw's farm are protected by fences and surveillance cameras, but that the rest of the property is unprotected.

Minzey said police are baffled by the incident, and have "no idea" as to what a motive might be. He said police will continue to keep a close watch on the property. Shaw, 28, joined the five-member rock group in Chicago in 1975. The group -has since soared to international fame, and was rated the top music group by American teenagers in 1979. Shaw obtained a divorce in Berrien Circuit Court in 1979.

At that time, his personal wealth was estimated to be in excess of $1 million. Beating Suspect Charged LANSING, Mich. (AP) A Lansing man was jailed under $35,000 bond following his arraignment on a charge of second-degree murder in the beating death of an 8-month-old boy. Marvin Switzer, 29, surrendered Tuesday and was arraigned in District Court 54A before Judge James Wood, police said. The child, Buford Schrad-er, was brought to Lansing's Sparrow Hpospital by his mother last Thursday and pronounced dead due to severe internal injuries.

The boy was injured "all over his body," police said. 11 PETITION CHAIN: A consumer activist group turns in more than 430,000 names on petitions to place another question on Michigan's Novem-. ber ballot. The petitions were passed from one person to another in a chain outside the state elections offices in Lansing on Tuesday. The proposals calls for the election of state Public Service Commission members.

(AP Laser- phoo) SEX CHARGES DISTURR LAWMAKERS in military tattle fatigues that appeared at the home of rock star Tommy Shaw Tuesday morning. Trooper David Minzey of the Niles post said police from three departments used dogs and helicopter Tuesday afternoon in a futile attempt to find a group that reportedly invaded the Shaw property on Niles-Buchanan Road at 8:20 a.m. Minzey said officers found an abandoned campsite in Police Find Tent Pitched In Woods woods behind Shaw's property, a 90-acre farm, but have not been able to establish if the men were part of a survivalist or paramilitary group, or if they had been stalking Shaw. The rock star, who is vocalist and lead guitarist for the internationally-known rock group "Styx," was at home when the incident occurred, but did not see the intruders, Minzey said. The officer said the incident was reported by Betsy Waltman, a friend of Shaw's, who told police she saw at least five men carrying rifles or shotguns in a wooded area of Shaw's farm close to the house.

Miss Waltman told the men they were trespassing, By SCOTT AIKEN South Berrien Bureau NILES An intensive search of a wooded area west of here failed to locate a group of armed men clad TOMMY SHAW Rock star "3 Do rmito ry For Pages Pushed 8 7" for spending government money for such a purpose. Maybe these new reports will help change that attitude." Authorization for such a facility exists, according to Sen. James Abdnor, and land for it has been Cocaine Usage Probed Rep. Robert Dornan, in Oklahoma City where he accompanied Vice President George Bush on a fund-raising tour and, disclosed that investigators in Washington have uncovered the names of "half a dozen" congressmen using cocaine. Dornan allowed his Capitol Hill offices to be used In the probe.

(AP 1 i if: 7 comment on a revival of the proposal from the office of House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, who chairs the commission. "No one in the world should expect these children to come into a large and dangerous city and fend for themselves," Abdnor said. While the pages' parents expect sponsoring members of Congress to keep an eye on their children, "There is no mechanism set up for doing it," he said. Last week, the House ethics committee announced it was investigating allegations of drug trafficking among pages.

The panel is also probing allegations that some members have sought sexual favors from the youngsters. The Justice Department also is investigating these (See back page, sec. 1, col. 1) Lake Temperature The temperature of Lake Michlgaff was 65 degrees at-11 a.m. today at the St.

Joseph water treatment plant. purchased near the Capitol. But Abdnor said the House Office Building Commission, which killed the project in 1980, must approve the dorm, and the funds would have to be appropriated. There was no immediate lishment of an official dormitory where these young people could be quartered and supervised under tight control," said House Majority Leader James Wright, D-Texas, in a recent statement. When youngsters are through with their school and page duties, he said, they "suddenly find themselves footloose and free of any real supervision in a city full of temptation." The issue has come up before.

Six years ago, congressmen in the House Education and Labor Committee discussed the lack of supervision for the pages in off-duty hours. The hearings were on the Capitol Page School, which is run by the District of Columbia. House Doorkeeper James Molloy, whose office oversees the pages, said during those hearings that the supervision issue was "a potential time bomb." Molloy also asked for construction of a dormitory. Wright said his previous efforts to establish such a facility "failed because many members of Congress felt they might be criticized By PEGGY ANDERSEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Disturbed by reports that former congressional pages may have engaged in drug trafficking and illicit sex, some lawmakers are renewing calls for construction of a dormitory where the teenagers could be supervised. The recent allegations have prompted several members of Congress to question whether pages on Capitol Hill are able to handle weeks or months of unsu-pervised residence in Washington.

At present, there is no offi-cial dormitory for the pages, who range in age from 14 to 18 years old. Most of the approximately 100 pages who work in Congress as messengers and errand-runners at any one time must find their own accomodations. However, some of the young men live in housing provided by the U.S.. Capitol Page Alumni Association and some of the girls stay in the Thompson-Markward Hall, a private facibty. "For several years I have been working for the estab- ICO if 4 i Police Say Man Set Fire To Self By ANDY OAKLEY Staff Writer St.

Joseph police said Kevin Seifert, 26, of 820 Court suffered first and second degree burns when he allegedly set himself on fire in his back yard Tuesday. Seifert was treated at Memorial Hospital and later released. Patrolman John Nolan said Seifert apparently dumped alcohol on his body and then lit a match. The incident was reported at 2:50 a.m. Nolan said police were unable to pinpoint any motive in the incident..