Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 12

LANSING STATE JOURNAL Jan. 25, 1 984 iviotro IVlid-lvncnigan ivuwj Schuette makes it official Court starts jury selection in Washtenaw trial slavery By TOM GROSS Staff Writer Schuette came to Lansing this morning to announce formally he is the Republican candidate in the 10th US. Congressional district race he joined unofficially last May. Sefeuette, 30, an attorney from Sunday liqusr void election 'net Icjjd' WEBBERVILLE Plans of the Village Council to place an advisory question regarding sale of liquor on Sunday on the March election ballot have been shot down by a re cent attorney general's ruling. The council had been approached by the Webb Inn concerning permission to sett liquor on Sunday.

The issue aroused considerable feeling within the community and the by a 3-2 vote, decided to poll the voters at the March 12 election. The results of the vote, however, would not have been binding. A check with the Ingham County clerk's office, however, disclosed that the attorney general's office had issued an opinion stating purely advisory elections are not legal If the matter were put to a vote, under conditions of the opinion, die council would be giving the power to decide on the Sunday liquor issue to the voters. The council then decided to withdraw the matter from the ballot. in which the two exchanged personal barbs.

Schuette is hitching his political hopes to President Reagan's re-election bandwagon. THE REAGAN economic program is working," he said. "The 10th District needs a congressman who supports Ronald Reagan." He blasted Albosta, saying the congressman is out of step with the district for having voted against Reagan 82 percent of the time. Albosta also has been leading the U.S. House subcommittee probe into how the 1980 Reagan election campaign obtained some of President Carter's briefing papers.

Albosta has delayed the probe for the rest of the year. Schuette called Reagan one of the most honest men he nas met and said the district does not need a congressman who attacks the anrora. wiu oe challenging Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. DwwM Albosta.

Norther Republicans are expected to enter the race. 1 1 promised to conduct "a positive, up-beat campaign based upon three years of back wages, totaling $101359.80, for the two men, a state Labor Department spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Kozminskis and Asam were named in a federal grand jury indictment issued Nov. 10. They are accused of forcing Fulmer, 57, and Molitoris, 59, to work on the Kozminskis' 405-acre farm near Chelsea for at least 11 years.

THE INVESTIGATION initially began when neighbors contacted the sheriffs department in Washtenaw County," Gilman said. "They investigated it and turned it over to the FBI." Investigators said the men, who received only $10 at Christmas and Easter, were forced to work 17-hour days, eat spoiled food and live in an unheated, run-down trailer without running water or toilet facilities. Fulmer began working on the farm in 1967 and Molitoris arrived in 1972, investigators sakL THE MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT of Social Services removed the pair from the farm in August and placed them in foster homes. The state Labor Department last fall investigated the case and determined the men were owed back wages, said Debbie Nolan a department administrative assistant. State law only allows a claim for three years back pay, she said.

The Kozminskis were required to respond to the claim by Jan. 20 but have not done so, Nolan said. The claim will be processed and turned over to the Michigan Attorney General's Office, she said. ANN ARBOR (AP) Jury selection began today in the U.S. District Court trial of a Washtenaw County family accused of keeping two mentally retarded men as slaves on their 406-acre farm near Chelsea.

More than 100 prospective jurors crowded into the courtroom of Judge Charles W. Joiner as selections began for the trial of Ike Kozminsld, 60; his wife, Margarethe, 54; and their son John, 30. The three are charged with two counts of involuntary servitude and one count of violating the civil rights of farmhands Robert Fulmer and Louis Molitoris. (THE KOZMINSKIS WERE turned down last summer in their request for Ingham County economic development money to build an ducing factory near Stockbridge.) Conviction on the civil rights charges carries a maximum 10-year prison term and a $10,000 fine. Each slavery charge carries a maximum five-year prison term and a $5,000 fine.

A fourth defendant, Michael J. Asam of Monroe, faces identical charges, U.S. Attorney Leonard Gilman said Tuesday. Asam was arrested Jan. 13 by Monroe police on another charge, was turned over to the FBI and was being held in lieu of $10,000 bond, Gilman said.

NO TRIAL DATE HAS been set for Asam, believed to be 29, said assistant U.S. District Attorney Virginia Morgan. State labor officials, meanwhile, plan to seek the issues. Schumttm St Charles. of Albosta, 58, trounced the 1982 GOP candidate, Midland economist Larry Reed, after a particularly messy campaign Lansing Township OKs auto supply plan pervisor Phil O.

Pittenger be named to asked that concerns about use of barbed wire at the facility, which borders on several subdivisions, be reviewed. Approved rezoning 901 S. Waverly Road from commercial to general business for a U-Haul rentalmini-warehousing facility. Trustee Floyd Stebleton the sole dissenter on the question, expressed concern about "strip development" along Waverly, but other trustees pointed out other parcels along Waverly are rated and higher. IN OTHER action, the board approved new Supervisor John Dahers recommendation that former Republican su the planning commission, finenger ran as an independent against Republican Daher in the Jan.

10 special election to replace four recalled board members. The board also approved a change in the zoning ordinance to add trade schools as a classification. This will allow Olds-mobile to request a zoning change to permanently operate Windemere Park Elementary as a training center; the center has been operating under a temporary permit for the last year. Residents interested in serving on either the township development authority or board of assessment review were asked to contact the clerk's office. Building development projects dominated Lansing Township's board meeting Tuesday.

During the meeting, trustees: Approved a site plan from local developer Sam Eyde for an auto supply company and offices for himself on the site of the old Capitol Dodge auto dealership, 3011 E. Saginaw St The new facilities will be located between the new Flap Jdck restaurant on the north and City Fish Co. on the south. Referred back to the planning commission a site plan from Harvey Altman of Altman Brothers Co. for a U.S.

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