Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 12

B-2 THE STATE J01TLAL June 23, 1 977 J-X Metro Roundup 1 Cab driver robbed A Courtesy taxicab driver," Richard Schultz, lost about $10 to a knife wielding bandit late Wednesday night. Lansing police said Schultz had picked up a fare in the 700 block of West Shiawassee and as the cab approached Kalamazoo and Butler Streets, the rider pulled out a hunting knife, held it to Schultz's throat and demanded his cash. Police said the robber fled on foot with "about $10 in cash and change. Antique Olds shown Lansing Mall Shopping Center is saluting Olds-mobile today through Sunday, with a display of 12 antique models dating back to 1904, Olds millionth 1977 model, and an array of new Oldsmobiles Area antique car buffs will display 1904, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1916, 1920, 1929, 1934, 1936, 1948, 1956 and 1966 models. Area Olds dealers will show various 1977 models.

There will be historic displays from the Community Action Program, and photos of Oldsmobile's history; The show is dedicated to men and women employes of Oldsmobile. Once Over Lightly Highways man retires Henry J. Ra jala, 1001 Mahlon, retires Saturday after 21 years with the Department of State Highways and Transportation. The Ironwood native has held his present position as building trades supervisor in the Lansing carpentry shop since 1965.. Robart W.

Bauer and Mark S. Dunham of Lansing and Clair Overley Jr. of East Lansing were three of 17 Air Force ROTC cadets at Michigan State University commissioned second lieutenant. Bauer and Dunham" are Everett High graduates, Overley fr6m East Lansing High. Artiifs concept of the new Whaling Station restaurant Restaurant planned in Okemos area Kidnap-robbery senseless Charter Township board.

Situated on a two-acre site, the restaurant will have surfaced parking for 150 cars. "THE OWNERS made an extensive survey of food operations, and settled on the Foodmaker Division as a top operator in the restaurant industry. The facility will bring a new dimension in dining to the Okemos area which only has two sit-down restaurants available," Hicks.said. WILLIAM HICKS of Hicks Brother Realty of Okemos, represents the investors, the Okemos Property Group. He said more than $750,000 will be spent for the.

building and equipment. Construction is to start early next month. "The facility will be of-New England architecture, contain 8,600 square feet and have seating for 300 persons," Hicks said. It will primarily be a seafood restaurant and has been granted a liquor license by the Meridian By LLOYD MOLES Staff Writer. A group of Okemos business people will open a new $750,000 restaurant known as J.

Ross Brown's Whaling Station later this year at the northeast corner of East Grand River and Marsh.Drive. It will be operated by the Food-maker Division of Ralston Purina which manages the tatter's Mountain Jack restaurant in Delta Township. 'Play It Again, Sam' recommended Review her on the knee and muttered, "It's all over now." EVERYONE WAS asking everyone else what had happened, how, where, and why. Reporters tagged behind other reporters, hoping to glean a few tidbits of information. Cops seemed to be doing everything at once.

A large, silent throng surrounded the roped-off area where a priest gave last rites to Donnelly. In the long hours that followed, I talked to the sister of two suspects in the robbery slaying; I visited the campground where they hid out in a rented motor home; I talked with the dealer in Casselberry, Fla. who rented out the motor home, a few days earlier. And you know what? "None of it made much sense. They drove all the way from Florida to Lansing, to kidnap and rob.

They managed to kidnap two people but botched the robberjr badly and one wound up killing a Lansing cop. WHY LANSING? Why hostages and killing? I wonder if the would-be robbers can make sense of it. I wonder if Mac Donnelly Jr. could have. A newspaper photographer taking fictures of this' sad scene was con-ronted by a cop.

"Back off," the cop told him, "he's dead." The photographer responded the only way he could: "I don't like this part of my job any better than you do," he said, and kept taking pictures. SITTING ON the edge of a patrol car seat, feet on the pavement, a tall mustachioed man in a sport coat held his bloody hands upright while a cop applied bandages. Beside him on the pavement and leaning back against the car was a young woman. I have never seen a blanker stare anywhere. Every emotion was sapped.

Her name was Carol Spoelma, a pretty- young school-teacher, wife of a branch bank manager, and that morning, kidnaped and taken hostage in a bizzarre bank robbery attempt. She sat beside her husband, Jim Spoelma. "I was a hostage for awhile, in the car," she said. "My husband was shot in the hands." I could have quizzed her for hours, but didn't. That's tantamount to mortal sin with some but I didn't have the heart.

I merely patted Concluded from page B-l blindly. There could have been an armored tank up ahead for all we knew. A surge of bodies converged from all directions onto a single patch of pavement. Someone was being forced to the ground in sort of a gang tackle. More people were hunched over something lying on the ground.

The crowd suddenly parted, and through it came a man being pushed and collar- -tugged by several cops. He was. pudgy, barrel-shaped, a little man really, with eyes like black little pinpoints. The black beard was clipped close and looked pasted on. It was.

The face was bleached-bone white. There was blood on his neck. His eyes, caught mine for a fraction of a second, and I saw in them the look of a wounded, dangerous animal. Hurt, but capable of hurting. I won't forget that face.

ANOTHER CROWD of spectators had formed, around a large man in a striped T-shirt. He lay on his back, face bloodied, while paramedics frantically worked to keep his heart; beating. That was Mac Donnelly. He was dying. Dick, and his (Dick's) wife, Linda.

Ms. Thatcher is especially appealing in a less than challenging role. Penny Owen is also memorable as an exotic lady of supposedly easy virtue. Director Phil Heald has given the script all the attention it deserves. The production is played in two brisk acts rather than in three, as written.

Sancy Kennedy's unit setting serves the cast and play without drawing attention to itself. "Play It Again, Sam" runs Wednesdays through Sundays through July 3 at the Fitzgerald Park playhouse in Grand Ledge. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. By TY ROSS Woody Allen fans will appreciate "Play It Again, Sam," thebremier. production of the Boarshead Theater's summer season.

Allen's 1969 comedy' about a neurotic New York writer and his sexual fantasies is recommended entertainment. B. Douglas Schimer plays the journalist, Allan Felix, in the Boarshead's "Play It Again, Sam." Allan is sexually frustrated as a result of his recent divorce, a dedicated hypochondriac, an incorrigible daydreamer, and the victim of an unshakeable inferiority complex. He might have been as easily the protagonist of Neil Si- mon comedy. Schirner plays the role with great spirit and obviously enjoys himself.

DANA N. Charette, a local performer noted for his skillful improvisations and impersonations, is cast as Allan's idol and "alter ego," Humphrey Bogart. Charette's "Bogey" is a very fine characterization. Timothy Thatcher and Kristie Thatcher play Allan's best friend, Energy-saving building required State News sued for libel house (about the average size home in Lansing), which has many of the required energy saving features, costs about $38 a month to heat while the same size house without such features costs about $80 a month. As for the cost of building commercial buildings according to code re? quirements, Weinhagen said, "It could cost more but we just aren't sure yet." But even, if the construction costs are higher on commercial buildings, he said, heating and electrical bills will be lower.

Concluded from page B-l lowed. All are required to use a minimum amount of energy. Will the code changes cost the home buyer more money than before, provided his last house did not have energy saving features required the code? "THE CHANGES shouldn't cost them a bit more," said George Wein-hagen, deputy director of the Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes. "As far as we know, there should be little, if any added construction -costs," he said. "But what little might be lost will be made upjy a saving in heating and electrical costs." The average house built 10 years ago with no energy saving features will use about 50 per cent more energy than a new house the same size con- structed under the code, Weinhagen said.

"WE 'ARE talking about cutting down on the average ftirnace output from 100,000 BTUs to 50,000 BTUs," he said. Weinhagen said his 2,000 square foot shot that killed Michael Smith, May 4, police say, as Smith attacked Thelen with a crowbar. The libel suit claims that the student newspaper defamed the three officers by printing untrue articles based on an account of the shooting by a sceret witness. "The State News, through its staff writers, did willfully and maliciously misinterpret, misquote and misstate the substance of the alleged secret witness' statement the suit charges. THE STATE NEWS printed a story May 9 saying "Lansing police lied" in their account of the shooting and further claimed that Smith was unarmed when shot and was not threatening police.

Ingham County Prosecutor Peter Houk has absolved police from any wrongdoing in the incident and has. ruled the killing of Smith, who was being arrested on a burglary warrant, as justifiable homicide. After that determination, Ronders wrote Attorney General Frank Kelley' claiming Houk covered up for the police during the investigation. -HOWEVER, LAST week, Kelley in a reply to Ronders said after he looked into the matter, he could find no evidence of abuse of discretion on Houk's part in the shooting case or investigation. The police officers, through their lawyers Abood, Abood and Abood, have asked for a retraction of the published stories but the paper has refused to do so.

By DAN POORMAN Staff Writer Two reporters for the' Michigan State News, its editor and the nonprofit corporation itself have been sued by three Lansing policemen for $1.65 million damages. The suit, filed against Debbie Wolfe, Edward L. Ronders, and editor Mar-yann Chickshaw, accuses the trio and the Michigan State University student newspaper of "maliciously and wrongfully publishing or causing to be published (a) false and defamatory article" about a recent shooting involving a police officer. THE THREE officers who filed the suit are Chief Richard Gleason, and two patrolmen; John Hersman Jr. and Jon Thelen.

Hersman fired the fatal DEATHS and FUNERALS Retirement center makes comeback nia; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julio Pereida of Lansing; 4 sisters, Mrs. Felix (Esther) Rivas, Mrs. Ramon (Margaret) Lira Mrs.

Daniel (Linda) McGuigan, Lena Pereida all of Lansing; 7 brothers, James, Julio, Trinidad, Mansel, Robert, Daniel, Jeffery all of Lansing; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. Rosary will be Thursday evening at Oak Hill Memorial in San Jose. Funeral services will be Friday 1:30 p.m. at Chapel of Roses. The kitchens have been remodeled with gleaming steel appliances, including a giant frying pan to cook 48 slices of French toast at once, and other equipment to feed 278 residents and employes three meals a day, including special diets.

There are 178 persons in Jarvis Acres and about 100 in the mental health facility, known as the New Riverside Center. James W. Perkins, Jarvis Acres administrator, said the home's finances have improved. "WE HOPE to resume interest payments on bonds in November and are bending every effort to do that," Perkins added. Bond holders have precedence because they are first mortgage holders.

Perkins is grateful for the patience of creditors, who he described "as "understanding and cooperative." "In the next year or two this will be considered a tremendous resource to handle needs for this area," Perkins said. "And it will bring employment here." Jarvis Acres has a. staff of 100 full and part-time employes. Work is continuing in the New Riverside but is awaiting state appropriations. WALLACE, JACK E.

SR. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Age 72, died June 21, 1977 in Florida. Born Jan. 8, 1905.

Mr. Wallace is survived by his wife, Vera 2 daughters, Mrs. Lester Garlock of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Mrs. Mark Herrick of West Palm Beach, 1 son, Jack E.

Wallace Jr. of Okemos, 10 grandchildren; 4 great grandchildren. Interment was in 'Lauderdale Memorial Cemetery Thursday. Arrangements were by the Baird-Case Funeral Home, 4343 N. Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale.

Concluded from page B-l home-for-aged beds and 43 beds for. skilled care nursing patients. v-However, the facility was never filled. Only a few people who bought "life estates" for lifetime residence are still in the JARVIS ACRES still has 43 beds for skilled nursing care but the rest of its half has been converted to 135 basic, nursing care beds. Only 25 life estate residents remain.

Rooms are colorful with some in cool blue and others in warm yellow. ALLEN, JACK CHARLES 14317 Bliven Rd. Byron Age 43, died Wednesday at St. Mary's Hospital in Saginaw. He is survived by his wife, Lorraine Ann Hill; 1 step daughter, Dawn Hannah of Byron; 2 brothers, LeRoy Allen of Perry, and Harold A1-.

len of Shaftsburg; 3 sisters, Mrs. Arlene Carpenter of Shaftsburg, Mrs. Erma Hudson of Shaftsburg, Mrs. Shirley Morea of Byron and parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Roy V. Allen of Perry. His life work was a salesman for- Durand Auto Parts. Funeral Services will be held at Knapp Smith Inc. Funeral Homes, Perry.

Friday at 1 p.m. Burial in Glass River Cemetery, Antrim Township. Clergyman is Rev. Bill ROBINSON, CLYDE ISAIH 6161 Sleight Rd. Bath Age 85, died Wednesday morning at the residence where he had lived 2 months coming there from Wolyerine and Florida.

He was1 a retired painter-decorator. Services will be at McDou-gall Funeral Home, Laingsburg, Saturday 10 a.m. Elder Earl R. Pre-moe officiating with in--terment in Pleasant Hill. Survivors are the wife, Myree; 3 daughters, Mrs.

Russell (Arlene) Smith of Bath, Mrs. William (Irene) Godwin of Holt and Mrs. Chris (Lillian) Christman of Cold water; 2 sons, Leonard of Char- lotte and Dean of Lapeer; 21 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; 1 sister, Mrs. Mary Smith of Bellaire; 3 brothers, Frank of Harbor Springs, Albert of St. Paul, John of Central Point, FUNERALS Deaths 4 in MSU van mishap remai hospital ized MUNSHAW, ETHELYN L.

128 Caroline St Portland Age 91, who died June 21 in Grand Rapids. Memorial services will be held Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Congregational Church, Rev. Ronald Lahr officiating. ALLEN, JACK, 43, Of 14317 Bliven Road, Byron, died Wednesday.

Services 1 p.m. Friday at Knapp and Smith Funeral Home, Perry. COLLIER, WALLACE 89, of 513 Woodrow, died Wednesday. Arrangements by. Brown-Teeman Funeral Home, Greenville.

OAKLEY, HARRY W. 2077 Harding Ave. Holt Died June 23, 1977. Arrangements will be announced later by the Estes-Leadley Holt Chapel. topher Barrett, 22, of Mt.

Pleasant, were transferred to LaCrosse, from nearby Prairie Du Chien Hospital Wednesday. were reported in fair condition today. The group of 17 on a six-week geology field trip were injured when the large van they were riding in plunged down a steep embankment at Wyalus-ing State Park. The Grant County Sheriffs office said the crash took place when the vehicle, driven by Stonehouse, missed a sharp on a road in the park, plunged down the embankment and struck some trees. Three Michigan State University students and one faculty member are still hospitalized in LaCrosse Lutheran in Lacrosse, Wise, following a Tuesday night accident in which 17 persons from MSU were injured.

Mary Kelsney, 20, of Midland was' listed in serious condition in the intensive care unit. Shahbaz Radfar, 25, or 231 Owen Hall, -was listed in fair condition but was being held in the intensive care unit for observation for possible internal injuries. THE FACULTY leader for the group, Professor Harold B. Stone-house, 55, of East Lansing, and Chris Wallace Opticians founder dies TAFEL, FLORENCE K. 74fa Clinton Trail Eaton Rapids Age 82, died Tuesday evening at a Holt nursing tiome.

She is survived by 2 step daughters, Mrs. Helena Rusha of Ionia and Mrs. Margaret Bra-man of Lyons; 2 sisters, Mrs, Loraine Janecke of Eaton Rapids and Dorothy Heil of Lansing; 3 brothers, Harry Heil of Pellston, Harold Heil of DeWitt and Elmer Heil of San Jose, California; and nieces and nephews. Mrs. Tafel was a member of Emanuel First Lutheran Church of Lansing.

Funeral services will be Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Shelly Funeral Home. Interment in Deepdale Memorial Park, Lansing. COLLIER, WALLACE LEE 513 Woodrow Age 89, passed away Wednesday evening at his summer residence at Half Mile Lake, Gowen. He was a retired employe of Diamond Reo.

Surviving are his wife, Viola; 2 sons, Robert Lee Collier of Westland and Carroll Wayne Collier of Brad-dock Heights, Maryland; 3 grandchildren, Pamela Lea Collier and Terry Lee Collier of Okemos and Shelly Anne Collier of Maryland. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Brown-Teeman Funeral Home in Greenville. For information call 616-754-5638. STALLCUP, HUGH B. Ill E.

Gler St. Funeral services will be held Friday 10 a.m. at the Palmer-Bush Funeral Home with Fr. Francis Murray of St. Therese Church officiating.

Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited Thursday 8:15 p.m. at the funeral home. The family will receive friends Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Tim Hor-vath, Frank Horvath, Douglas Kosloski, Michael Stallcup, David Stallcup and Jack He was a member of the Lansing Rotary Club. Surviving are his wife. Vera; two daughters, Mrs. Lester Garlock of Fort Lauderdale, and Mrs.

Mark Her-rick of West Palm Beach, and a son, Jack of Okemos. Funeral services for Jack E. Wallace, 72, were held today in the Baird-Case Funeral Home, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Wallace was the founder of Wallace "Opticians of Lansing. He had made his home in Florida for the past several years.

PEREIDA, CHARLES B. 1542 WUlowgate San Jose, Calif. Formerly of Lansing Age 33, died June 21, 1977. He was a life time resident of Lansing and was employed by Oldsmobile. He was a member of Resurrection Church in Lansing.

Mr. Pereida was employed by the Co. in California since moving there in 1972. He was a member of the Union 546 and St. Christopher Church in San Jose.

Survivors include his wife, Virginia (Vetere) 1 daughter, Dorothy Pereida and 1 son, Charles Pereida both of Califor- GILLISON, ROBERT 63, of 600 E. Grand River, Laingsburg, died Wednesday. Arraignments by McDou-gall Funeral Home. OAKLEY, HARRY 48, of 2077 Harding. Holt, died 'today.

Arrange-v. ments by Estes-Leadley Holt Chapel. PEREIDA, CHARLES 33, of San Jose, formerly of Lansing, died Tuesday. Services 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Chapel of Roses, San Jose.

ROBINSON, CLYDE 85, of 6161 Sleight Road, Bath, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday at McDou-gall Funeral Home, Laingsburg. TAFEL, FLORENCE 82, of 7413 Clinton Trail, Eaton Rapids, died Tuesday. Services 1:30 p.m.

Friday at Shelly Funeral Home. WALLACE, JACK E. 72, of Fort Lauderdale, formerly of Lansing, died Tuesday. Services today at the Baird-Case Funeral Home, Fort Lauderdale. Crash fatal to Okemos woman from injuries.

He was a passenger in the car driven by Mrs. Grotewohl. The Grotewohl car collided head-on with- a truck about two miles north of Early on U.S. 71 last Thursday, police said. The driver of the truck has been charged with failure to yield the An Okemos woman has died of injuries suffered last week in a car-truck accident near Early, Iowa.

Hospital officials said 51-year-old Joan Grotewohl died Wednesday. HER UNCLE, Leland Grotewohl, 83, of Okemos, died last Saturday For Obituary Placement Service, Phone 487-4704.