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how you can call us lottery oxtra Thursdas number, 678, has never been drawn before. Lottery line 1-976-2020 Circulation Dept. Classified Gold Ads Insurance Dept. City News All other calls For delivery 222-6500 222-5000 222-6470 222-6600 222-6400 222-6500 Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Saturday, September 7, 1985 Traverse City hotel feels pinch after ending liquor sales Hitchens said he expects the effects to spill over into the hotel's business when cold weather sets in. TRAVERSE CITY attracts visitors during the winter, Hitchens said, but he's afraid people will stay away from the Park Place because of the no-liquor policy.

"It doesn't bother people at all to walk down the street in the summer to get a drink," he said. "But in the middle of January, it's a little different." Hitchens puts the blame for the poor restaurant business on legislators' failure to enact laws to alleviate the situation. mixed drinks at the hotel, which opened in 1873. Also, the hotel's once-popular "Top of the Park" restaurant, which has a view of downtown Traverse City and Grand Traverse Bay, is open now only for private functions, said Nancy Dawson of the hotel staff. No alcoholic beverages are allowed during those functions, she said.

Hitchens said his insurance bill would have jumped from $50,000 to $180,000 if he had kept selling alcoholic beverages. The increase, he said, stems from large jury awards against bar operators for serving drunken patrons who become involved in auto accidents. State Rep. Tom Alley, D-West Branch, has written a bill that would put a $300,000 limit on the amount of damages1 someone suing a business could collect under the Dram Shop Act. Under that law, the operator of a bar may be held liable, for the actions of a drunken patron.

Alley's bill is before the: House Standing Committee on Liquor Control. Legislators return Sept. 18 from their summer recess. "They (legislators) ought to get off vacation and get to work," Hitchens said. "There is a real crisis on this insurance thing, but they won't go to work." TRAVERSE CITY (AP) A Traverse City hotel owner said Friday his decision to stop selling alcoholic beverages because his insurance bill would have more than tripled has seriously damaged the hotel's restaurant business.

Daniel Hitchens, owner of the Park Place Hotel, said that during this summer's tourist season, the hotel's 146 rooms stayed full, but business at its two first-floor dining rooms fell dramatically. "It decimated our food and beverage business," Hitchens said of the decision in July to stop selling beer, wine and Driver gets 15-60 years slashing death y-; -j Jj-Z bhi'. 44. WS Ywt I'M I fryT-' LI i' vfjfe 1 an I School chief Vows classes on Monday in Pontiac firee Press Staff and wire reports Negotiations resumed Friday between the Pontiac School District and its striking teachers, with School Superintendent Odell Nails urging parents to get their children to classes on Monday whether or not the week-old walkout is over. "We intend to open the schools," a spokeswoman in Nails' office said.

Teacher strikes continued Friday with no sign of a settlement in three other Michigan public school districts: Flint, Marquette and Linden. Nearly 3,000 teachers are on the picket lines in the four districts, keeping nearly 50,000 students out of classes. I Mt. Clemens Community Schools and the Mt. Clemens Education Association, part of MEA Local 1, reached a tentative agreement Thursday on a new two-year contract.

An announcement by the office of Superintendent James Drue said terms of the new agreement would not be made public pending ratification by both sides. The roughly 225 teachers in the district have scheduled a Sept. 23 meeting to vote on the pact, according to union President Karen Wilkins. Asked for details of the agreement, Wilkins said only: "The district is in deficit. It's not as good as we wanted, but it's tolerable, I guess." Teachers have been working since Aug.

26 without a contract. In Pontiac, the Board of Education voted this week to fire teachers who do not report for work by Monday. Nails has vowed to use substitute teachers and administrators to conduct classes if the walkout by union teachers continues. Pontiac teachers will decide Sunday night whether to return to work, said Pontiac Education Association spokeswoman Lora Perkins. THE 949-MEMBER Pontiac Education Association, aided by sympathetic parents and students, distributed 30,000 leaflets Friday morning.

"Pontiac doesn't need 1,000 new teachers," the leaflet said. "Pontiac needs to keep 1,000 good teachers." The PEA accused the school board of "union busting tactics" and said the district had hired about 200 substitute teachers at $42 a day in recent weeks. The teachers reported for two scheduled training days last week before their contract expired, but struck on Tuesday, the first scheduled day of classes for Pontiac's 18,862 students. Pontiac teachers are fourth from the bottom in pay among 22 Oakland County school districts surveyed recently by the Michigan Education Association. FACULTY MEMBERS at Oakland University near Rochester returned to their classrooms Friday, ending a three-day strike.

The walkout ended Thursday night when bargainers for the university and the American Association of University Professors reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year r--'yrT 7i I 7 ft fljt jrT- manhood. The teenagers were "having fun in the city of Detroit," Koch said, with calculated cruelty aimed at those on the edge of society. "The slashings got more there was an escalation of violence," Koch argued. "They're getting into this. They enjoy it." But at the sentencing, Sorise said, "John Stinson was a victim of Robert Anderson's actions." Anderson, described by psychologists and psychiatrists during the trial as a severely disturbed and violent young man, was the only reason Stinson became involved, Sorise said.

Stinson would not have attacked anyone on his own, nor with any companion other than Anderson, Sorise said. I Pay-television service to end in November By STEPHEN ADVOKAT Free Press Communications Writer IT-TV, the Detroit area's last scrambled broadcast signal pay-TV service will cease Nov. 1. The channel IT, broadcast on Ann Arbor's WIHT (Channel 31), will become a full-time, regular commercial station. IT was launched Feb.

1, 1981, but recent cutbacks in installations and technical services personnel foretold its end. It has 12,000 subscribers. "Since late spring of 1984, we've experienced a steady but not drastic decline in subscribers, particularly due to an increase in cable television in Wayne and Oakland County, satellite dishes and videocassette recorders," -said WIHT General Manager Chris Webb. "The over-the-air market certainly is not what it was three years ago, when you had ON-TV, IT-TV and MORE-TV all operating and doing Very well." STARTING NOV. 1, WIHT-TV (Channel 31) will become an independent station, offering classic movies, programming from the i Satellite Program Network, college sports, national news and a Dow Jones news service, shown in text form, to viewers who buy a special Webb said there will be no cuts in his staff of 22 full-time employes, and; some will assume new tasks.

Subscribers who rented IT decoders -may apply their $50 deposits their last bills, Webb said. i Some 3,000 subscribers bought; their decoder boxes to enjoy a reduced monthly service fee since May 1984. "The people who have bought their decoders have received a 25 percent reduction in monthly fees," Webb said. "Just about everyone who bought a decoder has at least broken even on the purchase." ON-TV, another Detroit area single-; service subscription television service, ceased operations on March 31, 1983. Only MORE-TV, which beams Home Box Office pay cable programming via 1 microwave to specially designed roof- top antennas, continues, operating out of Livonia.

more Michigan news Some 50 detectives from through- out the state continue to sift leads in tlie week-old kidnapping of 13-year-old Shawn Moore near Brighton. Page 4B. Two prison guards remain hospital- ized after a fight with inmates at Huron Valley Men's Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti. Page 4B. State employes sue the Michigan Department of Mental Health what they say are dangerous schedules.

Page4B. Dateline Michigan, PageC. Wizard tvith wood By JOE SWICKARD Free Press Staff Writer John Stinson, the suburban teenage driver in a Woodward Avenue knifing spree, was given a 1 5-to-60-year prison sentence Friday for the murder of a Detroit prostitute. Recorder's Court Judge Joseph Gil-lis, in handing down the sentence, rejected defense attorney Domnick Sorise's plea that Stinson was another "victim" of his companion and co-defendant, Robert Anderson. "This crime required some little bit of planning," Gillis said.

A special education student at Warren High School, Stinson, 18, of Sterling Heights, was convicted Aug. 28 of second-degree murder for the fatal stabbing of Diane James. UNDER STATE law, second-degree murder carries a maximum penalty of life or any number of years in prison. Anderson, 18, of Troy, will be sentenced Sept. 16.

Stinson, originally charged with first-degree murder, was acquitted of assaulting two other people in the March 11 attacks on Woodwaru near McNichols. According to testimony, Anderson convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of assault by the same jury and Stinson, in a night of heavy drinking, cruised Woodward targeting prostitutes and street people for the attacks. The victims were slashed or stabbed in three separate attacks in a 90-minute period. "Throughout this trial I've felt trapped by circumstances," Stinson told Gillis. "I shouldn't have been drinking; I tend to forget things when I drink.

I did not intend to hurt anybody; I did not intend to help Robert Anderson hurt anybody." ANDERSON WIELDED a large buck knife while Stinson drove, a role assistant prosecutor Joseph Koch characterized as the "chauffeur of death." Koch, in his arguments to the jury, said the attacks were perverse rites of to $5,000 may be brothers. Brantley said an earlier theory that the suspects had been fishing in the river may not be valid. He said fishing poles the teenagers reportedly were carrying may have been stolen from vendors at the plaza. "We don't want to assume anything," he said. "We don't want people thinking, 'I know someone who was there, but he wasn't Anyone with information can call 224-4280 anytime.

George Romney: "All I know is what I read in the newspapers, and they don't tend to tell the complete story." A.J. Lutter. a chain saw sculptor from Sandstone, puts the finishing touches on his creation at the 40th annual Lakes States Logging Congress, which closes today in Escanaba. The timber industry exposition features logging and forest industry equipment valued at more than $100 million. trooper's killing grows AP Pholo Brantley of the Detroit Police homicide section.

"Most people will help without the reward," said Brantley. "But it will more than likely help. The tips have waned recently." Brantley said investigators had interviewed about 60 people and three persons were arrested but later released. Police believe the teenage suspects Police hope increase will bring tips Reward in By ERIC KINKOPF Free Press Staff Writer Colleagues of the Michigan state trooper gunned down on Hart Plaza on Aug. 29 have increased the reward for information about his killers to $5,000.

Trooper Fred Gibson said Friday the reward being offered by the Michigan State Troopers Association, which increased from $1,000, was not a "bounty." But Detroit homicide investigators, who have been frustrated so far in the nine-day manhunt, said the increased reward should help their faltering Paul Hutchins, 30, of St. Clair Shores, was leaving the Lansdowne restaurant on the Detroit River with a companion about 1 1:30 p.m. when two teenagers, one armed with a handgun, accosted them and robbed Hutchins. When Hutchins yelled "police" and reached for his gun, he was shot in the head. The youths fled the plaza on foot toward Woodward, said Sgt.

Bernard wouldn't do yourself." Lucas to approve building contract, Murphy says A UA full rTact- the full investi this point. It depends on what you gation shows." ROMNEY SAID he attended Thursday's Republican fund-raiser in Oakland County and "only said hello" to both Lucas and Murphy. Romney called on party leaders at a May fund-raiser to line up behind Lucas as a consensus candidate, rather than divide themselves in a primary election battle. He said only a consensus candidate could defeat Democratic Gov. Blanchard next year, but the remarks caused grumbling among many party leaders.

Romney said that although he still agrees with the idea of a consensus candidate, "There obviously are those who don't. I don't think it will happen." Editorial, Page 6A. By TIM JONES and CHRIS CHRISTOFF Free Press Staff Writers Wayne County Executive William Lucas "was naive" to approve a renovation contract for the Old County Building when his top aide stood to benefit financially from the arrangement, fellow Republican Daniel Murphy, the Oakland County executive, said Friday. Murphy, a likely contestant with Lucas for the 1986 GOP gubernatorial nomination, said that Lucas' chief of staff Dennis Nystrom's interest in the company signed to renovate the 83-year-old structure puts Lucas in a potentially bad light. He called the appearance of conflict of interest "unfortunate" because of the potential impact on Lucas.

"IN GOVERNMENT, I don't care who you are," Murphy said. "You just don't let anybody in your orgaaization do anything that After Nystrom's involvement was discovered, the firm was dropped from the project. Murphy was asked about the Nystrom matter after he spoke to the Lansing Rotary Club. He said he would not let his staff members do what Nystrom did, and added: "It don't happen in my organization." Former Gov. George Romney, who endorsed Lucas for governor during a GOP fundraiser in May, said Friday he still supported Lucas.

"It depends on what the facts prove to be," Romney said of the possible conflict of interest involving Nystrom. "All I know is what I read in the newspapers, and they don't tend to tell the complete story; they hit the highlights. I haven't seen enough to change my opinion at Cirrrr- Daniel Murphy: "You just don't let anybody in your organization do anything that you wouldn't do yourself.".