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fn i H'l1 WmWmWmmWmmWm -mrr f'f 'f-f T1? The South Band Tribune, Wednatdoy, March 23, 1977 Evangelist Sumrall purchases WMSH-TV Signing on, again will present a strong family program line-up as well as locally and nationally produced inspirational programs. Sumrall was out of town today and could not be reached for further details on the type of programming the station would carry. The sale of the station to Sumrall has been rumored for some time. In a Jan. 4 story in The Tribune, MacKenzie refused to confirm or deny that the station was to be sold to Sumrall, but an official of the evngelistic association did say There may be a lot of truth to that rumor.

The assets sold to the association, a 26-year-old not for profit corporation which supports missionaries and national pastors around the world as well as orphans in several countries, includes the real estate at 61300 S. Ironwood, its broadcasting tower and its FCC license, if the license transfer is approved by the federal agency. WMSII-TV obtained its FCC license in July, 1974, and began broadcasting on Aug. 3, 1974. The U.S.

District Court appointed MacKenzie trustee of Religious In the joint release, Sumrall stated it likely will be mid-summer before the necessary approvals are received and he can begin broadcasting operations on Channel 46. The evangelistic association already operates radio station WHME in South Bend, WHMB-TV in Indianapolis, and WHFT-TV in Miami, as well as the Christian Center in South Bend. The programing of the other two television stations owned by the association is described as Christian family television and Sumrall indicated in the release that thp station By GERALD LUTKUS Tribune Stuff Writer 1 Local evangelist Rev. Lester Sum- rail has purchased WMSH-TV, Channel 46 for $496,000, Gordon MacKen-zie, trustee of the station, announced today. Sumrall and MacKenzie announced today the signing of a contract for the sale of the assets of Channel 46 to the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association, Inc.

subject to the approval of the Federal Communications Com-1 mission, the U.S. District Court and other appropriate regulatory agencies television and utility wires. The camping trailer in the Keppler yard escaped damage. SNOWSTORM DAMAGE Mrs. Robert Keppler of South Bend, surveys aftermath of early spring snowstorm Tuesday that brought down a tree limb onto ANOTHER LIMB DOWNED Three hours after a tree limb dragged down utility and television wires at the Robert Keppler home Tuesday in South Bend, a A new massage' and Educational Broadcasting Corp.

on May 5, 1975, after several investors in the company filed a petition with the court requesting reorganization of 'the corporation under the bankruptcy act. The station suspended broadcasting operations by limb broke loose against the roof of Elkhart fire rigs soon may be loverly ELKHART Fire lassies may grace Elkharts Are tracks in the not too distant future, Fire Chief Roger Klndy said today 1,4 The chlef SaJd that among a large number of applications for employment on the department are those of three women. Plans for the proposed new fire station include facilities for birth sexes. Construction of the new $900,060 facility, which is to be built on the old Keltec property at East St. and Waterfall is expected to get underway soon.

Roland Henderson of St. Louis answered the telephone number listed by the club in a newspaper advertisement when a Tribune reporter telephoned the establishment today. Henderson said he is a friend of the spas woman manager, and said he was standing in in her absence. Henderson said that Pope is no longer associated with either the spa or Executive Investments Limited. He admitted that the spa offers posing as a mechanic to examine two of the cars.

Watson said officials seized three cars at the time of the arrests in vehicles Chicago and got six more in Kalamazoo. 1 He said the three were accused of bringing vehicles into the United States that do not meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Act and Department of Transportation requirements. said there also was an alleged violation of customs laws with the making of allegedly false statements. He said in some cases cars allegedly were brought into the United States as property of visiting aliens that is not supposed to be sold, even though the autos were in effect destined for sale. Sullivan said the magistrates com-.

plaint says import duties are lower for vehicles imported for personal use. id metro -'i on Sept. 1, 1975, according to MacKenzie. Former St.josephCounty Commissioner David Kelley, who was known to be interested in the WMSH assests, would not comment today on the sale. from another their home.

tree thudded massage bv women either clad in 9 bikini or nude, and said 'the price structure revealed by police is accurate. Henderson, said the club has been open since Saturday, and that business is picking up, with eight Customers served ob tybsd'a He said ihe dstabllsHpiOnt offers complete body massage, He addedithat prospective personnel at the 'beingisereened carefully to be certain that no violation occurs. Employes currently consist of the managr and another woman, he said. He said he feels there is a need fpr such a business, and said the firm is not trying to hide anything. The property is currently zoned commercially and everything has been cleared by the county, he said.

Mama Chickie case continued: A case charging Edith (Mania Chickie) McShane with keeping a house of ill fame has been continued to March 31 in misdemeanor court. The case was scheduled for a hearing today, but through her attorney Mrs. McShane asked for the continuance and filed a motion for discovery. Watson said the seized cars include i Ferrari, Mercedes, Alfa Romeo and Porsche autos. Plati received a doctoral diploma in 1970 from the Facolto di Arch.

Politecnico di Torino in Italy, and a masters degree in 1971 jit Syracuse University. -S He was hired as a Notre Daipe assistant professbr hi 1971. Prof. Ambrose chairman of the architecture department, said the charge took the architecture faculty by surprise. Richardson said Platts work as a design teacher; Has been satisfactory.

4 JJotre Dame maintains an architecture program in Rome; where, before archictects may graduate, they must study for a year. Plati served in the program two years ago, Richardson said, as do all architecture faculty members on a revolving i MORE STORM DAMAGE The mounting for utility meters hangs in a precarious position after it was torn loose from the outside wall of a hoase next door to the Robert Keppler home, where high winds and heavy snow caused tree limbs to break and drag utility wires with them. There was no service interruption, as the heavy duty cable held out against snapping in two. Tribune Staff Photos bv D. A.

Murphy Chikar said that the county prosecutors office is currently researching felony statutes. The detective went to the county council office this morning to discuss the possibility of a new county ordinance regulating massage parlors, only to learn that such an ordinance Is scheduled for public hearing by thd' council on April ll The measure was introduced by -Councilman Phillip Barkley last August, but has been under study by a council committee since that time. The ordinance would require that massage technicians show proof of graduation from a recognized school, and would prohibit massages by unclothed employes or massage of a customers genitals. Chikar expressed concern that the ordinance may be too late to affect the Executive Club. A similar ordinance was passed by the South Bend Common Council last year to regulate massage parlors after the emergence of a spa known the Satin Doll.

That establishment later closed its doors. Chikar said he plans to discuss the proposed ordinance, with county council members. A man who identified himself as Enrico F. Plati, 35, of 203 E. Marion, an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame, faces the possibility of indictment soon for alleged fraud in importing cars.

Asst. U.S. Atty. John L. Sullivan said Plati is one of three men named in a federal magistrates complaint pending in Chicago.

Sullivan said the complaint alleges conspiracy to defraud the United States of import duties. He said the three were arrested at a Chicago garage on Jan. 22 and were released on bond shortly afterward. Donald Watson, special agent in charge of the office of investigation of the U.S. customs office in Chicago, said the arrests followed his offices development of information that illegally entered vehicles were being offered for sale.

Watson said one of the vehicles was offered for sale in a Chicago newspaper. Contacting the alleged Seller, Watson said, a customs official was referred to a South Bend tele-phone number. Watson said undercover agents called that number, came here and were shown a vehicle, which Watson said he thinks was a Mercedes. Sullivan said he does not know who the agents called in South Bend, but the magistrates complaint alleges two agents came here on Jan. 21 and met Plati and Paolo Bemardi, 29, of Turin, Italy.

4 Watson said the agents were taken to Kalamazoo and shown eight other cars that were stored there. Sullivan said the complaint alleges that the third suspect, Antonio Con-siglio, 39, also of Turin, arrived at a garage in Chicago where Platt and Bemardi were meeting with undercover customs agents, including one By JAMES WENSITS Tribune Staff Writer St. Joseph County police detectives revealed today that they are investigating a new massage parlor at U.S. 31 and Brick known as the Executive Club, Health where it is possible, they to be massaged by naked orscantily-cla(J said they have dispussed the operation with the county prosecutors office and have been told that the health spa is currently operating just within the framework of the law. Police said that the concrete block building in which the spa has operated since Saturday is being leased by Executive Investments Limited, of 219 W.

Main, Carbondale, 111. They said that John Anthony Pope is listed as president of the firm, Chikar said police have received numerous complaints from residents in the neighborhood, but have prepared no criminal charges at this He said that police investigation has determined that the' establishments prices range from $20 for a 30-minute massage by a woman wearing only a bikini swim suit, to $65 for a massage by two nude women. Boys eye injured Scott Kapiszka, eight-year-old stepson of James Cole, 1487 Cambridge, who was admitted to Memorial Hospital Monday afternoon for treatment of a slingshot wound to his left eye, remained in satisfactory condition in the pediatrics ward of the hospital today, according to officials there. report the presence of insurgents would have put religious missions in Rhodesia in danger of retribution from guerrillas. When the deportation order was received, Clafin reported that an associate of Lamont said the bishop wished to leave the countxy immediately.

Lamont reportedly will go to Rome prior to his visit to Notre Dame in two months. Invitations to receive Notre Dame honorary degrees are extended by university president Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., and are not usnally announced until confirmations are received from all recipients. But university officials felt compelled to confirm the award to Lamont after the bishop indicated to reporters that he would be coming to Notre Dame.

at the time, police reported. The accident occurred about 20 miles east of Joliet. Police said he was headed east at the time of the accident Perez, driving for the Ernest Metzger Trucking Co. of Silver Lake, was pronounced dead on arrival at 5 a m. Tuesday at Silver Cross Hospital, Joliet.

United Press International correspondent Jacques Clafin reported today from Salisbury, Rhodesia, that the government is deporting Lamont to deprive him of the spectacular martyrdom that imprisonment would afford. Lamont was sentenced to 10 years in prison on his guilty plea, but his sentence was reduced by Rhodesias high court to four years, all but one suspended. Clafin said that Lamont has been confined to a Salisbury hospital where he was treated for back injuries suffered in a car accident. Lamont is president of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, which has published documented evidence of mistreatment of rural black Rhodesians by Rhodesian forces. The incidents for which he was convicted occurred in April, May and June, 1976.

Lamont argued that to N.D. to 4 By GERALD LUTKUS Tribune Staff Writer A Roman Catholic bishop in Rhode-sia, who will be deported tonight from that country, will be coming to the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, officials confirmed today reports that Bishop Donal R. Lamont will be awarded an honorary degree at commencement exercises on May 22 at the university, fa Lamont, the 65-year old bishop of the eastern city of Umtali, pleaded guilty last year to charges of failing to report the presence of black guer- rillas and of inciting subordinates to i do the same. He has been stripped of his Rhodesian citizenship, which he has held for 27 years, and a govem-l ment spokesman said he would be put on a South African Airways jetliner leaving tonight for London.

Lamont has long criticized Prime Minister Ian Smiths govemment fpr practicing what Lamont termed a racist ethic and for the way it fights the four-year old guerrilla war. f. Lamonts presence on the dais will further reinforce the strong human rights angle which is forming around the Notre Dame commencement cer- emonies. He will join President Cart-k er on the dais. Carter, who will also receive an honorary degree, has been outspoken since assuming the residency on human rights violations around the world.

River run fees in a swell Rochester truck driver dies More area resident participation, an increase in entry fees and a change in a starting point are among preliminary plans' for the 1977 river run and canoe race. The event is sponsored jointly by the Michiana Watershed, and Saqoseebie Voyagers Club. Kenneth Senn, chairman of the annual event to be held May 14, announced today that the sponsors are considering limiting participation in some categories to area residents. The starting point for the competitive cruise class will be at Veterans Memorial Park while otter boats will be launched at. Leeper Park, the traditional starting point.

Starting times will be better enforced this year, Senn Hundreds annually take part in the run to Niles down, the St. Joseph River, Adult entry fees have been increased to $3.50 in advance and to $4.50 on race day. ROCHESTER -Joe Ben Perez, 44, of 1516 Wallace Rochester, a truck driver, was killed Tuesday in Illinois when his empty truck skidded on icy 1-80 amd slammed into a guard rail. Illinois State Police reported that Perez was pinned for a short time in the truck. He was alone in the vehicle a- A A.