Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 18

STATE JOURNAL Oct. 27, 1976 Metro Roundup Political sessions slated Candidates for Ingham Circuit Court judges, and for Ingham County will answer questions at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Edgewood United Church, 469 N. Hagadorn. Hoag condition 'fair' Eaton County Sheriff Eugene Hoag is reported in fair condition today in Ingham Medical Hospital after undergoing surgery Tuesday for the removal of a kidney stone.

It is the second such operation for the 47-year-old sheriff, who was stricken last week during an elk hunting trip in Idaho. Candidate forum The Eastside Neighborhood. Organization a candidate forum p.m. in the Resurrection Church cafeteria. Candidates running for state representative in the 57th district, county-wide office candidates and local county commissioner candidates are expected to attend.

Okemos to eye budget The Okemos School Board will hold a public hearing tonight on the district's proposed $5,385,268 budget for the year. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Kinawa Middie School cafeteria. Bankcorp seeks stock The parent company of Lansing's American Bank and Trust Co. has posted notice of its intent to acquire a controlling interest in the Muskegon Bank Trust Co.

American Bankcorp, Chairman Joseph B. Foster said the firm planned to purchase about 80 per cent of the Muskegon bank's outstanding shares at $31.60 a share. Purchase of the bank, which now has assets totaling $107 million, would bring the banking chain to a total of six banks with assets of $631 million. Children's party set Doves will fly overhead and candy will fly into the audience at a party for children on Saturday in the cafeteria of the Arts and Sciences Building at Lansing Community College. It'll cost 25 cents to get in that's the admission for parents, too for the show that begins at 1 p.m.

and ends at 3 p.m. with cookies, doughnuts and punch. Children are invited to come in costume. Prizes will be given for the best costumes with a $10 gift certificate for toys as the grand prize. Four runnerup prizes of $5 each also will be awarded.

Magicians be Andy Murray of Grand Ledge and Mark Schuurmans of Lansing. The party is sponsored by LCC students. John Dickie, student government president, said the students wanted to match the Halloween spirit and community spirit so all proceeds of the party will go to Capital Area United Way. Neighbors want project Concluded from page B-1 over the developers' confidence that their plan would receive favorable acwould pay $400,000 for the Davis prop- tion from township trustees. erty "unless they had an assurance they Trustees William Gibson and Robert could make a profit." Steadman earlier Richards and Drolett all said they took had told the crowd that the firm does exception to the remark.

And Ferguson own the land but no purchase price had "nobody promised anyone anybeen mentioned. thing." It was never clear who belonged to the hands or to the pockets. "If they paid a lot of money for it," Robert Worgul, 3125 Broadmoor, said Dr. Halleck continued, "then the zoning as far as he could determine no official will determine the value and I'd like an surveys have shown a need for more assurance that this is not the case." apartments in Delta Township. AN EVEN more direct reference to possible hanky-panky came from Mrs.

Patrick Nakfoor, 3401 Cambrey, who suggested "they have their hands in someone's pocket" during a discussion $750,000 blitz slashes margin for Proposal A By The Associated Press Dollars lots of them are making a dent in the overwhelming support for a Nov. 2 ballot proposal which seeks to ban non-returnable bottles from Michigan. Opponents of Proposal A the bottle bill have mounted a media blitz funded with at least $750,000, a spokesman for the Committee Against Forced Deposits, a coalition of beverage and bottle manufacturers and dealers, said Tuesday. THE MONEY, spent on newspaper and broadcast advertising, has triggered a 20 per cent drop in support for the proposal, according to the latest Market Opinion Research poll published in the Detroit News. The Michigan United Conservation Clubs, primarily responsible for getting the question on the ballot, says it is spending $75,000 of its own money and $25,000 in contributions to counter the industry effort.

Five weeks ago, 79 per cent of those surveyed indicated they favored banning non-returnable beverage containers. But in the latest poll reported Tuesday, voters likely to turn out next Tuesday and support Proposal A have dwindled to 59 per cent. DURING THOSE five weeks, Michigan residents have been subject to a barrage of advertising which claims that abolishing onetime containers will actually raise prices and not trim litter. Gun suspect released Gilbert Leal, 20, of 1241 Taft was released by police without charges Monday after being arrested Sunday in connection with a shooting incident on the city's northside. Lansing police said a witness, who had identified Leal to officers early Sunday morning as the man who fired four shots through a window into a room with 19 partygoers inside, refused to sign a complaint Monday and Leal was released.

Nobody was hit, police said, when the four .22 caliber bullets whizzed through the crowded room. Pizza parlors robbed; same bandit suspected An armed robber who offered his victims excuses for his crimes during holdups of two Lansing pizza parlors Tuesday night is being sought by city police today. Domino's Pizza, 5214 S. Cedar Street, was robbed about 9:18 p.m. when a lone gunman grabbed about $30 from the till and told clerk Raymond Thieboult "There'll be no trouble, I have no job and need the THEN, ABOUT 10:05 p.m., a robber detectives believe is the same man held up Mr.

D's Pizza, 1933 N. Larch and snatched about $300 before running from the store. Police said clerk William. Osterman said he thought he heard the man mutter something about being sorry about the holdup but said he had a wife and child to feed. According to witnesses, the armed robber in both cases was described as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s with a mustache and brown hair.

Also in both cases, police said, the man was wearing a blue nylon jacket and blue jeans. ALTHOUGH THE apologetic holdup man held a small caliber pistol on both clerks, no shots were fired and no one was injured in either case, police said. Coping with cancer opens door Concluded from page B-1 patients who have had colon sur- been." gery. Mrs. Cook said after the first mastectomy almost five years shock wore off, the family "went.

ago. CANCER SURGERY for Her- along with it and we haven't had a She also works in her husband's man Cook, meant loss of his great deal of trouble." company, Simplified Bookkeeping vocal chords. But he learned to and Tax Service, Inc. speak again. COOK HAD to give up talk to people like this group ming, but otherwise his life has THELMA LUNSFORD, whose a lot more than I did when I had been pretty much the same, he husband, Jack, was unable to be my voice," Cook smiled.

said. with her during the program, He learned to speak by brea- Aldrich said his surgery "didn't spoke of the problems of getting thing air in through the aperture help by golf game but I could over cancer surgery. left in his neck after surgery, and play." forcing that air back out through It's important to have a "sense That took three months or so. his mouth while mouthing the of humor that's No. 1," Aldrich And there were the problems of words.

said. "interruption of time with what you wanted to do," and the COOK HAD device that he THE OTHERS "question of whom, you should tell could to him talk after he Mrs. said agreed. she found it a and whether should tell them use help Jacoby lost his vocal chords but he de- "real traumatic" when she had to what you Mrs. Lunsford cided he'd rather do it by himself.

give up her bikini. But, she added, said. The biggest change in his life "I've learned in the past three or Mrs. Lunsford and Aldrich are has been his voice. He's more or four years that the old bod' is active in the Ostomy Association less retired, but, he said, "I seem going anyway.

An I can swim just of Greater Lansing and visit other to. be as busy as I've always as well in a one piece suit." Ex-Supervisor's or's son arrested By HUGH LEACH Staff Writer The son of former Delhi Township Supervisor Joe Kiersey has been picked up township police for damaging large political signs advertising the candidacy of present Supervisor Michael Walkington. Marty Kiersey, 18, was apprehended after an estimated $400 in damage to Walkington signs in the township. The younger Kiersey, who listed his address as 1750 Jeanne, Holt, and another young man, Charles L. Culver, 20, of 3976 Holt Road, were apprehended near a damaged Walkington sign.

Police said the pair dropped a can of spray paint and ran when police approached. Both Kiersey and Culver were released by police pending issuance of a warrant. Walkington said he is still unsure whether he will sign a complaint in the case. Since the property damaged was Walkington's, he must sign a complaint before a warrant could be sought, township police said. WALKINGTON DEFEATED the senior Kiersey, who had served 12 years as supervisor, in 1974 in a campaign remarkably free from vandalism and political mud-slinging.

Although Kiersey, as Democrat, is not running in the township this year, there have been a couple of harsh exchanges between him and Walkington, a Republican. Walkington started it by asking that Kiersey be requested to resign from the Ingham County Road Commission. Kiersey responded by questioning the legality of canceling a scheduled township meeting and suggesting that Walkington may have been using a township' police vehicle for personal use. stymied "And Park West lottery tickets for a will rent one of its chuckled as he that the township tional apartments. Carl Haussman, head of a construction his name, summed many' of the area said: "We who have and effort in have found peace ity and we're looking protect these things is ever offering free year to anyone who apartments," Worgul stressed to the board doesn't need addi- nature lover and.

firm which bears up the feelings of residents when he spent lots of time developing our homes and joy and traquilfor this board to for us." THE BOARD said it has scheduled a vote on the apartment zoning for its Nov. 15 meeting. TV debate civil Concluded from page B-1 HE SAID he surveyed ment complexes in and learned there were vacancies in some in apartment for rent ads State Journal classified large apartthe area recently as many as 38 addition to the 203 in last Sunday's section. and a distorter," Taylor said. "This is a smoke-screen he's trying to put up in order to cover up his votes on the issues.

"People are starting to recognize all the phony charges he makes," Carr responded. "It's all hollow. The polls are starting to show that." THE COMMENTS and the short tempers reflected some of the recent poll results. The Taylor people have released a formal survey showing the race to be dead-even. But that survey was taken two weeks ago, before Carr tortions.

Carr insists informal polllaunched a alleging disattack ing shows he's regained a solid lead since then. Now Taylor has launched a counter-counter-attack, charging that it's the distortion charges that are really distorted. All of that provided a steamy finale for what had been a very casual, lowkey debate. The debate was run by the Chamber of Commerce, and most of the questions many of them highly argumentative dealt with business and the economy. It was taped for showing on tonight.

(Another previouslydebate will be shown at 9 p.m. Thursday on WKAR-TV, Channel 23.) THE ANSWERS pointed out what has been obvious throughout the campaign: once the finger-pointing is finished, there's an endless series of issues to choose from. "There's as wide a choice between the two candidates here as there is anywhere in the country," Taylor said. Taylor stuck with his view that government has gone much too far. It should leave job-producing with private industry, he said, not with a federal jobs program.

It should tread lightly into health insurance. It should ease off of steep regulations. "We've' seen government become a colossus," Taylor said. "It hovers over every aspect of life. It seems to dominate our lives.

Is this what we want?" CARR INSISTED that he agrees with much of that, but that there are times when government is stuck with the role. Government has to help, he said, when people can't find jobs or when people can't pay their medical bills or when there are consumer frauds. "The ideal that everyone seems to want," Carr said, "is a situation where we're all free of regulations, but everyone else is With those general views, the specific answers were predictable enough: CARR FAVORED creation of a new central consumer agency, arguing that it would do a better job of the work now handled by 39 separate agencies. Taylor opposed it, arguing that it would mean more government domination. Taylor blasted the Humphrey-Hawkins jobs bill, arguing that the money.

should be used to fuel private industry instead of creating temporary government jobs. Carr supported the general concept of the bill, arguing that it's better to create jobs than to have none at all. Carr favored a proposal to ban state "right-to-work" laws, arguing that those laws allow some people to get the benefits of a union, without paying the dues. Taylor said "right-to-work" should continue because it provides individual freedom. TAYLOR BLASTED Carr for voting for a total of $122 billion in deficits over two years.

Carr said the only soltuion for deficits is to create an expanding economy. Correction Deaths A story about a traffic mishap in the 1500 1 block of North Larch, printed in the Oct. 22 edition of The State Journal, mistakenly listed Saundra Skinner, 31, of Owosso as being driver of a car that hit the viaduct guardrail. Police traffic accident reports said the car was driven by Peggy McAlister, 21, of 1111 W. Allegan.

John Emens rites set MUNCIE, Ind. Services are planned here Thursday morning for John R. Emens, president emeritus of Ball State University, who died Monday. He was 75. Emens, a former Lansing resident who worked for Michigan State University and the state of Michigan, began his teaching career in one-room Michigan schools in 1920.

WALKINGTON SAID he has not decided whether to sign a formal complaint against the the younger Kiersey for damaging his signs. Police said Walkington would have to sign the complaint because the damage involved his property. DEATHS and FUNERALS VELTMAN, HARRY H. Mt. Hope Hwy.

Grand Ledge Mr. Veltman, age 82, passed away Tuesday evening at a Lansing hospital. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Holihan Funeral Home, Grand Ledge. CROSS, GARY L. 615 N.

Pennsylvania Mr. Cross died October 27, 1976 at the residence. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. WARNER, LOLA M. 1608 Blair St.

Age 84, died October 25, 1976 at a local nursing home. She had been a resident of the Lansing area for the last 40 years. She is survived by her daughter Mrs. Donald (Betty) Foster of Lansing; grandsons, Donald, Ronald, and John D. Foster; granddaughter, Mrs.

Ralph (Judith) Ellingsen; 8 great friend David Hel- and ler. Graveside services will be held Thursday, October 28 at 2 p.m. in Deepdale Memorial Park, the Rev. Stanley McKenzie officiating. Friends may call between 7 and 9 p.m.

Wednesday evening at the Jessen Funeral Home. HICKS, MARSHALL R. 5154 W. Parks Rd. St.

Johns Age 54. Passed away Tuesday, October 26 at his residence. He graduated from Rodney B. Wilson High School in 1939. He had lived all of his life in Clinton County.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church in St. Johns. He was Bengal Township Supervisor, a member of the Clinton area Ambulance Board, a member of Farm Bureau, a former board member of the Harper School, and he was a bus driver for the St. Johns Public Schools for the past 15 years. Survived by his wife, Betty; 2 daughters, Mrs.

Louise Ferguson and Mrs. Lorraine Upton both of St. Johns; 1 son, Russell of Lansing; 1 grandson; his mother, Mrs. Cerelda Hicks of St. Johns; 1 brother, Kenneth of St.

Johns. Services will be at the Osgood Funeral Home 1 p.m. Friday. Burial in Mt. Rest Cemetery.

The family requests donations to the coronary care unit at Clinton Memorial Hospital. BRACKSTONE, NEIL G. 1020 Norwood Rd. Mr. Brackstone, age 82, died at a local hospital Oct.

25, 1976. He had been a resident of Lansing since 1941, coming from Pontiac. He attended Westminster Presbyterian Church. He retired from the State of Michigan as Capitol City Airport Manager. He was Past President of the American of Airport Executives and was a member of the Michigan Airport Managers.

Surviving are: 1 son, Robert Neil of Grand Ledge; 1 grandson; and 3 granddaughters. Religious conducted at 1 p.m. Thurs. in the Estes-Leadley Colonial Chapel, with Rev. David P.

McClean officiating, with interment in 1 Chapel Hill Cemetery. Bearers are: Russell Brown, Frank Sickelsmith, M. J. VandeBunte, Lester Andress, Richard Kettles and John Morrow. ANDERSON, JOSEPH C.

2800 Midwood Age 61. Died October 26, 1976 at a local hospital. Born July 14, 1915 in Curtis, Michigan. Mr. Anderson had been a resident of Lansing for 23 years and was employed with Mississippi Valley.

Steel Co. retiring in 1972. Surviving are the wife, Helen 3 daughters, Mrs. Donald (Joyce) Webb of Potterville, Mrs. James (Patricia) Smith of Sunfield, Mrs.

Judy Foster of Lansing; 5 sons, Charles J. of Ovid, James C. of Bath, Thomas L. of Charlotte, Jack E. and Steven M.

both of Lansing; a sister, Mrs. Dave (Ada) Coffey of Bath; 1 brother, Aca Anderson of Lansing; 2 half-brothers, Neil Long of Lansing, Cleve Long of Clifford, 26 grand2 children; several nieces great and nephews; 1 step-sister, Mrs. Charles (Thelma) Lour of St. Helen, 2 step-brothers, Freeman Long of Lake and Clinton Long Clifford. Funeral services will be Friday at 1 p.m.

at the GorslineRunciman Lansing Chapel with Dr. James C. Dotson Pastor of the Miller Road Bible Church officiating. Interment at Deepdale Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Charles Jack James Thomas Steven M.

Anderson and Donald R. Webb. The family will receive friends Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at funeral home. HAUETER, JOHN F.

4063 W. Saginaw Hwy. Grand Ledge Mr. Haueter, age 66, passed away Tuesday evening at a Lansing hospital. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Holihan Funeral Home, Grand Ledge.

PATRICK, EUGENE W. 424 W. Henry St. Charlotte Mr. Patrick, age 51, passed away Tuesday, October 26.

He had been a Charlotte resident for 6 years. He was formerly employed by Fisher Body and was a WWII veteran with the U.S. Army. He is survived by, daughters, Mrs. Charles (Linda) Burhans, Mrs.

Gary (Dorothy) Martin, both of Portland, and Mrs. Chris (Valerie) Miller of Woodland; 6 sons, James, Dan, and David of Charlotte, Ron and Wendell of Grand Ledge, Dewey of Portland; 21 grandchildren; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver (Katherine) Patrick of Charlotte 2 sisters, Mrs. Joyce Perkins and Miss Lana Patrick, both of Charlotte; 2 brothers, James and David, both of Charlotte.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Burkhead Funeral Chapel. Interment in the Maple Hill Cemetery. GRIFFES, SYLVIA 3172 Bell Oak Rd. Williamston Age 41.

Born June 26, 1935 in Lansing Died October 25, 1976 at a local hospital. She was a life long resident of the area and a member of the Locke Center Extension. She is survived by her -husband, Milan; 4 sons, James W. of Kalamazoo, Michael Edward R. and Keith A.

all of Williamston; 2 daughters, Betsy and Susan, both of Williamston; her mother, Marjorie Young of Williamston; a brother, Brandt Young of Munith; and a sister, ShirSwegles of Port Huron. Services will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. from the Gorsline-Runciman Williamston Chapel, Rev. Glenn Pettigrove and Rev. Harold Reese will officiate.

Interment will be in Roselawn Cemetery, Perry. Casketbearers will be Bill Hudson, Bill Lantis, Jack Force, Roy Piper, Robert Griffes, and Rick Swegles. Contributions may be made to the Cardiac Care Unit at Sparrow Hospital The family will receive visitors Wednesday from 3-4 and 7-9. For Obituary Placement Service, Phone 487-4704 HANKEY, DALE W. 4483 North St.

Holt Mr. Hankey died October 26, 1976 at the residence. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. POST, DOLORES M.A. 255 N.

Jefferson St. Mason Age 36. Died October 26, 1976 at her home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Ball-Dunn Chapel, Gorsline-Runciman Mason. FUNERALS RICHARDSON, BERTHA B.

4819 Delta River Dr. Religious services were conducted 11:30 a.m. Wed. in the Estes Leadley Colonial Chapel, with Rev. David P.

McClean officiating, with interment in Deepdale Cemetery. MATHIASEN, CHRIS M. 815 Clyde St. Religious services were conducted at 1:00 p.m. in the Estes-1 ley Colonial Chapel with Rev.

Alan W. Kamens officiating with interment i in Brush Ridge Cemetery, Barry County, Michigan. ANDERSON, JOSEPH 61, of 2800 Midwood, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, GorslineRunciman Lansing Chapel.

BENNETT, RANDALL, 18, of St. Clair Shores, formerly of Vestaburg, died Monday. Services 1 p.m. Thursday, Schnepp Funeral Home, Riverdale. CROSS, GARY 615 N.

Pennsylvania, died today. Arrangements by Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. GRIFFES, SYLVIA ANNE, 41, of 3172 Bell Oak Road, Williamston, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Thursday, GorslineRunciman Williamston Chapel.

HANKEY, DALE 4483 North, Holt, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. HAUETER, JOHN 66, of 4063 W. Saginaw Grand Ledge, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Holihan Funeral Home.

HICKS, MARSHALL 54, of 5154 W. Parks Road, St. Johns, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Osgood Funeral Home.

PATRICK, EUGENE 51, of 424 W. Henry, Charlotte, died Tuesday. Services 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Burkhead Chapel. POST, DOLORES M.A., 36, of 255 W.

Jefferson, Mason, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Ball-Dunn Chapel. VELTMAN, HARRY 82, of Mt. Hope Grand Ledge, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Holihan Funeral Home.

WARNER, LOLA 84, of 1608 Blair died Monday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Thursday, Deepdale Memorial Park. Arrangements by Jessen Funeral Home. XANDERS, KATHLEEN MARY, 54, of 9469 Columbia Eaton Rapids, died Tuesday.

Arrangements by Skinner Chapel. COLEMAN, HAROLD E. 2789 Roseland Ave. E. Lansing The Masonic Lodge of Okemos will conduct a masonic service Wednesday at 8 p.m.

at the Gorsline-Runciman East Chapel, East Lansing. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Gorsline-Runciman East Chapel with Rev. Paul W.W. Green, Pastor of the Eastminster Presbyterian Church officiating.

Interment will be in Deepdale Memorial Park. Friends desiring may make contributions to Eastminster Presbyterian Church memorial fund..