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fli iw lit. He said the department's investigation has not found evidence of employe involvement in the breakout. Lt. John Shewell of the Ypsilanti State Police post said the escape was well planned, with people apparently waiting in a getaway car. Alexander was serving a life sentence for the 1980 murder of a Leonidas man who was stabbed 45 times.

Chipman was sentenced to life for the 1970 shooting of a Genesee County sheriff's deputy. There has been one other escape at Huron Valley. That inmate hid in a truck leaving the prison but was quickly captured. If I I Kf 5 -y ttJ 'f -5 jTL 'I if rlllf.rr..rmi.... ----WMlllllMliwrffiiliy Farm worker 'was afraid to tell the truth' By RON DZWONKOWSKI Free Press Lansing Staff LANSING An "obvious oversight in design" at the state's newest maximum-security prison blocked the view of guards stationed in a tower and enabled two murderers to escape Jan.

2, Michigan corrections officials said Tuesday. Also contributing to the breakout were the failure of employes inside the Huron Valley Prison Facility-Men's Division to follow rules on key control and prisoner supervision, and the ability of the inmates to knock out a window at the bar-less prison near Ypsilanti, officials said in a report to the House Corrections Committee. The officials said steps have since been taken at the prison to correct the deficiencies that led to the escape. The $20 million, 41 1-bed Huron Valley prison was opened in 1981. One of the inmates who escaped, James Alexander, 26, of St.

Joseph County, surrendered to authorities in Milwaukee last week and has been returned to Michigan. The second, James Chipman, 35, of Flint, is free and is considered dangerous. THE PAIR fled during the day through a dental clinic window to a parking lot but could not be seen because the view of that area from a guard tower is blocked by a wall, Richard McKeon, executive assistant to state Corrections Director Perry Johnson, told the committee. A security fence is being installed around the area where the view is obstructed and the prison's electronic surveillance system is being extended to cover it as well, he said. A key used by the convicts to unlock an inside security screen was supposed to be kept in a locked area out of their reach, McKeon said.

The inmates hammered at the three-by-five-foot window with a metal mop wringer. They made only a small hole in the security glass but knocked loose the frame, which was held to the wall "by just a few studs," McKeon said. HE SAID the window was built according to design and that all windows are being modified to better withstand such a pounding. The noise made by the prisoners apparently was covered by carpet-cleaning equipment they were supposed to be using, McKeon said. "The prisoners should not have been in there without staff supervision," said William Kime, director of the department's Bureau of Programs.

One prison employe, a nursing supervisor, was suspended for six days soon after the escape but later was cleared of wrongdoing. Two custodial employes face hearings over charges they violated security procedures. "BY NO MEANS is this the end of it," McKeon told the committee. "There is no question key control policy was not adhered to, no question. There was neglect, at least." By PATRICIA MONTEMURRI Free Press Staff Writer ANN ARBOR Robert Fulmer, one of two men allegedly forced to work without pay on a Washtenaw County farm, testified Tuesday that he "was afraid to tell the truth" in January 1981 when a state worker investigated a complaint about the farm's owners.

The Department of Social Services worker Tuesday testified she let the investigation drop after talking with Fulmer, 57, and Louis Molitoris, 59. After getting another complaint in August 1983, she returned to the farm owned by Ike Kozminski and found the two farmhands living in filthy conditions, Ruth Lutz said Tuesday in federal court in Ann Arbor. Lutz, who said Fulmer earlier told her that he "was afraid to tell the truth," said he told her in 1983, 'I'm not going to lie to you now. I want to leave the farm. I want to leave before Ike comes Free Press Photo by MANNY CRIS0ST0M0 Walter Zukin looks at the remains of his restaurant and delicatessen Tuesday.

The Lafayette Park deli was firebombed four days earlier. RESTAURATEUR WELL-KNOWN, LIKED Motive for firebombing is a mystery By ANDREA FORD Free Press Staff Writer Walter Zukin stood Tuesday in the charred of Zukin's Restaurant and Delicatessen in Detroit's Lafayette Park and wondered out loud if last week's nickel hike in the price of coffee had made someone angry. The joke was one of the few things Zukin could laugh about Tuesday, four days after; someone firebombed his place, a favorite breakfast and lunch spot for politicians, lawyers and judges from downtown courthouses. "Why else would someone do something Police are investigating, but had made no arrests by late Tuesday afternoon. Zukin, who was at the restaurant taking an inventory, said damage estimates have been as high as $250,000.

Lost in the fire were mementos collected in nearly 40 years of operating restaurants in Detroit signed photographs of the famous, including Mayor Young and the late singer-actor-political activist Paul Robeson, and a testimonial from the Detroit City Council. See BOMBING, Page 10A like this?" the 62-year-old restaurateur asked, smiling tightly and sweeping his arm around the blackened, debris-filled eatery he had operated 11 years. 1 Booths had been burned down to the seat springs and decorative lamps that had once hung over crowded tables had melted and dropped to the floor. In the kitchen, cans of food had burned on the shelf. THE FIREBOMBING occured Friday, two hours before the restaurant opened.

A cook who was inside escaped uninjured. He did not see who was responsible. THE GOVERNMENT HAS charged Kozminski, 60, his wife, Margarethe, 54, and their son John, 30, each with two counts of involuntary servitude and one count of conspiracy to violate the farmhands' civil rights. Fulmer said Tuesday that the Kozminski couple took him away from a neighboring farm in 1967, promising to pay him 1 5 a week. Fulmer said the 1 5 eventually became $1 a week and then no money at all.

The government has charged that the Kozminskis forced the men to work without pay, beat them and kept them in a filthy trailer without running water. Defense attorneys contend the men were free to leave. Fulmer said Kozminski kicked him once many years ago. Kozminski also hit Molitoris in the face once, cutting his forehead, he said. UNDER QUESTIONING from defense attorney Ivan Barris, Fulmer said he wasn't afraid of Ike Kozminski.

When Mrs. Kozminski told him to leave the farm 10 years ago, Fulmer said he didn't leave because "I had no place to go." Fulmer also said the See FARMHAND, Page 11A 6 women harassed, MSU board finds getting it straight sor of music. "We're going to find out what he did and didn't do, as opposed to what is being said and make some decision" about whether to retain DeRusha, said Steven Wenzel, University of South Florida vice- president for employe relations and legal affairs. DeRUSHA DID not return phone calls. An investigation of DeRusha at MSU began last summer, after the six students filed complaints.

The nature of the complaints some of which dated back three years was not released by the board, but a board member confirmed their content. After the complaints, DeRusha was removed as band director and reassigned to a research position in MSU's music department. The board recommended that MSU award two of the students $200 and $400, respectively, for attorney fees. panel of students, faculty and staff members appointed to investigate MSU personnel charged with racial or sexual discrimination. The board, which has no power to take action, makes recommendations to the university administration.

Its recommendations on DeRusha came Dec. 24, shortly before he resigned, and were approved Jan. 25 by MSU President Cecil Mackey. MSU officials refused to comment Tuesday. "Stanley DeRusha is no longer an employe of Michigan State University, so there is nothing we can say about any personnel procedures here regarding him," said a written statement by public-relations director Terry Denbow.

The complaints are also being investigated by officials at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where DeRusha was hired in December as a band director and profes To ensure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error which may occur in our news columns. By SUSAN GOLDBERG Free Press Education Writer A former Michigan State University band director sexually harassed six women students since 1980, the school's anti-discrimination board has determined. The MSU Anti-Discrimination Judicial Board concluded that Stanley DeRusha, a professor of music and director of two symphonic bands at MSU from 1978 until his resignation in December, committed 14 acts of harassment. The board recommended that he be fired for misconduct. The board found that DeRusha, 38, coerced one woman into performing oral sex and that he patted students' buttocks, hugged and kissed them, fondled their breasts and placed the hands of one student on his genitals, a board member said.

THE BOARD is an 11-member advisory The Free Press incorrectly reported the predominant nationalities of Detroit's 28,000 Hispanic residents Tuesday. According to 1980 census figures cited by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Mexicans make up 66.5 percent of Hispanics in the city, followed by Puerto Ricans (4.3 percent) and Cubans (1.4 percent). Other Central and South American countries make up the rest. An MSU board has determined that former band director Stanley DeRusha committed 14 acts of harassment. $250,000 COULD BE SAVED Vt.

1 Wife misses 4 shots at spouse in RenCen County changes warrant system ti-Tffl iiiiitWaiiiiiBifiiH recovered the weapon. Under the old system, both officers, because each played a crucial role in the arrest, would go to court to get the warrant and then return to court on another day for the preliminary examination. The case, which could have been handled by one officer, now involves two, both of whom get extra pay or compensatory time. THE OVERTIME PADDING also can be used in narcotics cases with each member of the raiding crew sometimes 20 or more officers claiming to see some portion of the crime or recover some evidence. "There are lots of reasons for the change that are not strictly corruption," said the official, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified.

"But there is corruption, and that's the one people don't want to talk about. You hear some officer talking about their 4.5" hours and "how they're going The system, which is used in homicide cases, calls for a warrant to be issued on the "information and belief" of the assigned court officer, based on the arresting officers' written reports. Under the old system, warrants were issued on the basis of the arresting officers' sworn statement to a magistrate. Although the new system is being touted as more efficent, it also is aimed at officers who reportedly manipulated their arrests to Increase overtime pay and compensatory time off. UNDER THE current police contract, an officer who has to appear in court while off duty automatically gets paid, or is credited for, 4.5 hours.

One law-enforcement official gave this example of manipulation: A two-officer scout car is making a concealed-weapons arrest near the end of its shift. One officer will claim to have seen a suspect make a suspicious gesture, and the other officer will claim to have By JOE SWICKARD Free Press Staff Writer The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, trying to streamline operations and cut down on suspected abuse of thei Detroit Police Department's overtime pay policy, will alter the way arrest warrants are issued in certain criminal cases. Under the new system, which takes effect Wednesday, warrant requests for narcotics and firearms violations will be handled by a single officer from each precinct or bureau, instead of by the arresting officers coming before a Detroit District Court magistrate. Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair said the new procedure will save "conservatively speaking, $250,000 and it will make more officers available for duty rather than sitting around waiting in the courthouse." O'HAIR SAID if the new procedure works for the gun and drug cases, it may be used for other offenses. of Renaissance Tower 400, in the offices of Schureman, Frakes, Glass Wulfmeier, lawyers for the husband.

Present with the Henderson couple were lawyers Jeptha Schureman, representing the husband, and Denise Alexander, representing the wife. Court records said Mrs. Henderson stood up, holding a revolver in both hands, and fired four times across the table at her husband. All four shots missed him and struck the wall behind his chair. Lawyers took the weapon from Mrs.

Henderson, and security officers held her until Detroit police arrived. Police later found four spent shell casings, two of the slugs and one live round. Dr. and Mrs. Henderson could not be reached for comment.

Under personal bond, a defendant is not required to pay any bail money. By SANDY McCLURE and BILLY BOWLES Free Press Staff Writers A Grosse Pointe Shores woman was charged Tuesday with trying to shoot her estranged husband in a Renaissance Center law office where they were giving depositions Monday in their divorce suit. Viola Louise Henderson, 55, was arraigned before Detroit District Court Magistrate Vesta Svenson on charges of assault with intent to murder and violation of Michigan's felony firearms act. The magistrate released her on 1 00,000 personal bond and scheduled a preliminary examination Feb. 22, a court spokesman said.

The husband, Dr. Hugh Henderson, was unhurt, court records said. The records show the incident occurred at 11:45 a.m. Monday in a private conference room on the 18th floor Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair said the new procedure will save "conservatively speaking, $250,000." to make the most of it and how they're going make it one way or another." But Deputy Police Chief Richard Dungy said, "I don't think officers are abusing it. It's not corruption.

It's not illegal, but officers are shrewd enough to know how they can benefit from it. Some police officers are enterprising and know how to work within the system." i 4.