Ironwood Daily Globe from Ironwood, Michigan • Page 6

Kelley Urges Establishment of Grand Jury to Probe Dole Fraud 'cuss (lie grand Jury request. He discussed Hie probe Tuc.djy with and Gov. William Millikon. select 23 jurors front registered count) 1 voters. DETROIT A Kslah- lUlimcnt of a citizens' grand jury to invest Medicaid ami welfare fraud in Wayne County and other pans o( the stale has been urged by Ally.

Gen. Frank Kellfy." Hellcy said he needs a cr.ind jury's powers to subpoena and grant immunity to witnesses it his probe ol the alleged abuses is to be successful. preliminary lion has proceeded to ihe point where we feel the and authority of a citizens' grand jury are necessary," Kelley said. "Both the investigation of Medieairt and welfare will be, includfd in the gram) jury in-; vesiination." Targets of (lie probe incli providers of Mcdicaid services, presumably doctors I I i I officials in the Wayne I 15 XTflTO A Department of Social 113 I I I I I i (he attorney general said. Slate Social Services Director MADISON.

UP) Thei decreasing scale based oil 157-! sed Kellty in; Alliance of Cite issued another: property values. The probe the Wayne County welfare system folloivs reports- of widespread mis- Kelley and Canham report-1 management and fraud. It rc- ledly agreed to a new grand hwlodly includes use ol false jury because an existing one is identification, a lack ol training too busy 0:1 oilier matters, Can- fur' employes and deficiencies bam must present a petition in administration, from Kelley to Hie 33-judge: Dempsey, in addition to seek- beech for approval. Kelley said! ing Ihe grand jury, says he will he might wait until next week: ask tile legislature for more to submit the petition. :r.oi:ey to extra investigators If (he bench agrees, one of its and welfare staff, improve judges will supervise the grand management in the countv de- jury.

The Wayne County jury parttucut, ami speed up tho commission would be asked to county roorgnnuaiian plan. Wisconsin Cities Alliance John Dempjey nrgi November to request sucn grand jury. Dempst promised to clean up i fraud and mismanagement in full reimbursement for slale with tax re- Ihe Wayne County department. venue lost under factory lax-re- There arc 15 attorneys ar.d as the welfare and Medicaid investigations, Kelley said this week, incltsdin" detectives from the Slale Police. He said indictments are near lief programs.

ard taxpayer groups have complained that some cities are no'. getting state money lo compen- KAlic 6 Ironwoou Dully Oloile, Hiciny, January 1, sate for local reductions properly tax revcmve. 1 The alliance slid it calculates thai tlie revenue decrease has exceeded S100 million. 18 member cities alone, the alliance ssid, have lost $31.4: million in three years, ineludi: an estimated 516.7 in 1977. ''This has got to be made up! through higher property taxes in our local communities," ver declared.

RJ OFFERING A BKWAHD FOll KII.I.KH Lee liigdon and liis daughters sit before cameras after offering $5,000 life savings for help in catching (tie killer of Mrs. Lee Rigdon in their Chula Vista home, near San Diego, Calif. "This and several dozen persons are; i ack of i reimbursement to being investigated for apparent- municipalities mist be ly cheating the welfare system ccorrccled by Gov Patrck But adding to the municipal glaring inequity the protests is a new state limit iig Stranded, Frostbitten Wisconsin Hiker Saved or bilking (he payment program. Kelley said the probe is not concentrating on group of people, three cey and Ihe liam H. Beyer, alliance director, said.

any single The 1973 program "There are referring to machinery ar.d groups of people m- equipment used in mamif.ictur- volvcd." he "Those who ns was designed to ease are paid by Ihe slate to provide: ca property taxes, encouragin- services to the poor, those who industries to exuano tteir facili- receive welfare services and lies. money, work in Beyer said the alliance endorses the idea of expanding the Department of Social Sti ices. "We are not out lo make any of these groups the scapegoat of this investigation. But where factories and provide more jobs, out that the sia'e should give adequate reimbursement to municipalities whose property we find evidence of criminal lax revenue is.reduced by the wrongdoing, cute." we will prose- tax break. The stale, with its comoensa- helloy met with Wayne Ccun- ty Circuit Court Judge James than had been anticipated, Canham on Wednesday to dis-1 a reimbursement formula on.a PANEL SPECIALS increases in municipal tax levies.

The alliar.ce said it gets its figures (ro.ti the Department of Revenue's files, gearing esti- male; to homes worth in the 18 communities. The organization said it figures a home in Menasha has to be assessed S74.40 extra Ihjs year lake up the i slack'. Other cities with the alliance's estimated increases include: Neenah S52.60, Green Bay Milwaukee $31.80, Racine J8.80. Kcr.osha $28.20. Beyer said the idea of full reimbursement by the state GATL1NBURG, Teun.

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Guyol on Ihe North Carolina side'of the park for the rescue party, --said it will be several days he- Wisconsin Manufacturers and! fore he kr.ows Beaver lost part of his feel. Lsshe said il doesn't appear now that the tissue damage to the back part of the feel Is very great. A group of hikers ran across Beaver on Tuesday at a shelter on top of (he Clifford Beaver 20, Oc- stranded hiker. Plagued by up onomowK, was brought to four foot deep snow drifts, iy has the backing of Ihe league Wisconsin Municipalities, the Jlll tll Wisconsin iManufacturers and' tion Comlr -orce and the than had been scticinaied. has.

nallace commissicn a sludy iturly panel reviewing slale-local fis- 1 cal relations. 2 Killed in Plane Crash FUKT, Mich. (AP) A Lear jet crashed in a ball of flame near an Interstate 75 entrance ramp here Thursday night, killing both crewman and halting traffic along the busy freeway. The aircraft exploded ar.d crashed or.e-quarler of a mile short of the Bishop Airport run- its final Ian- eyewitnesses way while makin sing approach, and airport officials reported. The plane's flaming fuselage came to rest on a Torreyo Had ramp leading onto the freeway.

Flint mf.ce identified the victims as (he plane's pilot, Donald True of Muskegon, and copilot John Gardner of Ponliac. The men's ages were not immediately available. Bishop Airport tower chief Gene Simmons said the jet was approaching Bishop after a 16- rainute (rip from Willow airport near Ypsilanti. Simmons said the pilot and co-pilol were the only persons aboard. "Everything was routine from our end of it," Simmons said in describing the prelude to the crash.

Simmons said the creivnien gave no radio indication anything was Al an airport terminal ticket counter, a United Air Lines em- ploye reported "the whole sky lit up" when Hie jcl crashed. Keesler, 22, of Flint, an employe at a United Parcel Service office near the crash site, said, "It looked like the plane was comin in too low for a landing." He said it appeared the pilot tried to pull th plar.c's nose up at the last minute. Fire (rucks and police from Flint and Flinl Township were rushed to the scene. Police said the plans was en route to Flint to pick up some cargo from General The je! ras said to be valued at more than 51 million, police said. Tiie plane was owned by Jet Avia Limited of Vegas, (he I lower chief said.

Jet Avia' has an office in Ypsilanli. Police closed 1-75 entrance ar.d cxil ramps near the crash site for several hours following the accident. Student Shot at Detroit School DETROIT (AP) A 16-year- old student was shot and seriously wounded Thursday at Detroit's Central Hieh School. Police arrested ftvb other students for questioning. The victim, James Walker, said the iw other students fired nine rounds at him, wour.ding him once in the left thigh.

Walker told investigators the two youths, also IS, left school with him and were discussing a ice and heavy mist, they found him at p.m. Park spokesman Roger Miller said Beawr obtained a permit last Friday to hike along the 7 i 1 Appalachain Trail through the park. Lashe quoted Beaver as saying his bools froze on Saturday, when temperatures fell to near zero vith 18 to 24 inches of sr.oiv on the ground, but that walked in them anyway. "He said he had to put warm in the boots lo get his feet out of them, and they, of then just got worse'," Lishe said. Special Senate CAP) -Two state Senale seats vacated in Ihe November sional elections will be filled in special elections March 23, ivith primary elections set for t'eb.

23. The elections will fill Ihe I4th District seat vacated by now- U.S. Hop. Carl D. Pursell and the 291b District seat formerly held by U.S.

Rep. Dale E. Kildee. Tte last dale for minor party caucuses or eonvenlipns is Jan. 17.

Nominaling petitions or fil- fees must he filed by Jan. fight which occurred Wednes-'25, and (he last date for with- day. One witness said the fight involved shoving in a lunch line. drawal is Jan. 23, the governor's office announced Thursday.

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Hurley Phones 561-3(44 or 932-1511 Probe: Dearborn Mayor improperly Handled Marriage, Other Fees LANSING, Mich, Dearborn Mayor Qrville Hubbard improperly handled thousands of dollars in marriage lees, but Ally Gen. Frank Kelley (here's not much that can be done about II. And, Kelley said, the same is true for other cases of mismanagement or wrongdoing in Dearborn city government, uncovered during an attorney general's office probe. The investigation found Hubbard gave the ci(y only $3,490 of $35,638 he collected for performing marriages from July 1972 through November 1974. In addition, Kelley said the 35-year veteran mayor broke Ihe law by accepting more Hum (he official marriage Ice.

Bui since the. olfense carries a or.e- year statute of limitations, it's too late to do anything about it. Kelley also detailed other mismanagement or wrongdoing in Dearborn city government, including personal use ol city- owned cars, questionable land Ex-Justice Works for Utility Firm LANSING, Mich. (AP) Former state Supreme Court Lawrence Lindemer lias a new job: vice president and top lawyer for Consumers Power Co. Lindemer, 55, ended his brief term on the court Jan.

1 after he lost to Democrat Blair Moody Jr. in November's election. He was appointed to the new job Wedicsday by the utility's board of directors. He will begin work Jan. 17.

His salary was no! disclosed by Consumers Power. A spokesman said it would become public when the utility filed required reports with the slale Public Service Commission in March. Lindemer was a member of a Lansing law firm which previously had hand ted Consumers Power business. But (lie spokesman said it amounted to only $4,000 a year in 1974 and 1975 and Ihe firm was "not a major outside law firm" used by the utility. As general counsel; Lindemer will supervise some 30 attorneys on the Jackson-based utility's legal staff.

He will replace James Falahce, who was promoted. 'A Republican- and former state 'representative, Lindemer was appointed-to the Supreme Court in June 1975 by Gov. William Milliken. He replaced the laic Justice Thomas M. Kavanagh.

But Lindemer lost to Moody, a former Wayne County Circuit Court judge, in a to finish out the remaining six years of the eight year term. Globe Want Ads Sell sales hy city employes and imprudent management of a lurking Kellly said he found the incidents "reprehensible." But he said most were too minor or hnppenoJ loo long ago to warrant criminal charges, In some eases, Kelley said, (ho city charier contained no enforcement provisions. Kelley's 32 page report was Hie rcsull of an iiiresligallo:) of a lo government prompted by a stale Treasury Department audit and complaints from city residents. A Dearborn official said such complaints against the Republican llubbard, wlio has dominated city since 1912, were politically And he. Kellcy's report showed little wrongdoing.

He's dismissed all life charges he's washed (hen) out," said Doyne Jackson, director ol research ar.d informa- lico. I Hubbard was incapacitated by a stroke in 1974. Kelloy also said: --Cily-owiied cars were used by council members end lop officials for personal business. Kelley left any criminal charges up to Ihe Wayne County prosecutor. -Sales of land lo Ihe city by Huhbard's son, Henry P.

Hubbard, Hie mayor's longtime friend, Mary Kerne, appeared lo be "technical violations" ol 3 law prohibiting public em- ployes (o cnler into contracts with their employers. Tr.e younger llubbard is superintendent of motor transport, while Mary Koane is director the city's service bureau. But Kelley rcconimendo.1 no prosecution, saying they were nol advised tho ssles violated Hie law, there was no attcmp: to hide them and the profit was small. --The city should take action to collect $360,900 owed it by businesses wilhin Dearborn. The firms donate money to a fund instead of providing oif- slreet parking.

RENT-A-CAR; need a car RENTAL RATES RENT-A-CAR 10 RENTALS AVAILABLE 9C I '77 LTD. j. 12,95 -w 13 13 93 ut 'TJ F-100 Pickup 1.9.95 '77 F-150 Pidnp H.95 I2C '77 F-100 11.95 12t 77 Super BESSEMER AUTO CO. Condensed Statement of Condition IRON EXCHANGE BANK As of December 31, 1976 RESOURCES Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Up To $40,000 Cash and Due from Banks U.S.

Government Obligations Municipal Olher Bonds Reserve Fund Sold Federal Reserve Bank Stock Loans and Discounts Overdrafts Banking House, Furniture Equipment Olher Real Estate Olhar Assets 901,022.23 2,473,049.65 3,023,015.34 250,000.00 15,000.00 5,055,239.95 518.68 11,000.00 22,000.00 11,319.65 TOTAL LIABILITIES $11,762,165.50 Capitol Stock $120,000.00 Surplus 380,000.00 Reserve for Contingencies 200,000.00 Undivided Profits 336,338.99 TOTAL CAPITAl FUNDS $1,036,338.99 Reserve for Losses on Loans 45 Olher Reserves 38,400.00 Unearned Discount; or 070 Olher liabilities TOTAL OUR 92nd YEAR Continuous Banking Service (0 tn( Range and Resort Communities 1977 OFFICERS H. Dovia, President J. Gibbons, Exec, Vice Pres. C. L.

Barto, Vfce Pres. A. R. Prelll, Cashier Pauline Hauiwirth, Cashier Max H. Prelti, A.

Cashier DIRECTORS R. I. Schomisch Chairman H. F. Davra E.

Gibbons Evoris R. Engstrom Dan S. Young Era L. Nasi.