Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 18

MetroMichigan Lansing State Journal Friday, Dec. 11, 1987 6B State won't pay rent for bad welfare homes State digest Super Lotto grows to $7.5 million tickets matched all six numbers chosen recent SuPer Lotto drawing, mak-mg Saturday's drawing worth at least $7.5 million, state lottery officials said Thursday. A computer search Thursday of about 4 million plays found no matches of all winning numbers 13, 32. 33, 39, 41 and 44. The 92 tickets matching five numbers were worth $3,529 each; the 4,460 tickets matching four numbers were worth $118 each.

Judge keeps player off bench MACOMB A Macomb County Circuit Judge said he will decide next week whether a 19-year-old Cardinal Mooney High School student can play on the school basketball team. tion, a hospital spokeswoman said. The other injured woman was not Identified. Moten, who lives next door to the Reeds, said her son, John, 9, woke, found smoke seeping through his bedroom wall and woke her. She said she picked up her 10-month-old daughter and left the building, knocking on neighbors' doors to alert them of the fire.

Reed has two other children who escaped the fire, she said. Walled Lake judge to resign early WALLED LAKE District Judge Martin Boyle said he will resign Jan. 19, three years before his term expires, to scale back in case load. Boyle, 59, has spent 19 years on the bench of the 52nd District Court in Walled Lake. He made the announcement Monday, saying he will seek a limited number of appointments as a visiting judge.

Compiled from Associated Press reports. Judge John Bruff said Monday that he will allow John McClellan, a special education student from Harrison Township, to play on the team at least another week. The Michigan High School Athletic Association says McClellan Is ineligible because of a rule barring 19-year-olds from playing on school teams unless their birthday falls on or after Sept 1. McClellan turned 19 on June 23. Buchanan fire kills baby BUCHANAN A baby died and two women were injured when fire broke out early Thursday at the Maple Leaf Terrace Apartments in Buchanan, officials said.

Crystal Marie Reed, 23 months old, died after her mother, Mary Reed, tried unsuccessfully to get her out of their burning apartment, said Wanda Moten, a neighbor. Mary Reed was taken to Pawating Hospital In Niles, where she is reported in stable condi Associated Press Landlords who rent to welfare recipients will face the loss of direct rental payments from the state beginning Jan. 1 if their properties don't meet local building codes. "This is not intended as a full-fledged attack on landlords, but we won't pay for lousy housing," said Dennis Sykes, director of the state Department of Social Services Office of Special Projects. Beginning next month, landlords will have to sign a statement agreeing to a housing inspection if they want to receive money directly from the state for renting to welfare recipients, a practice known as vendoring.

The department pays about $24 million a month $258 million in fiscal 1987 in vendor payments to landlords who rent to welfare -recipients in the state. The new policy doesn't require landlords to prove their dwellings meet building standards, only that they agree to an inspection. If an inspection finds the dwelling is substandard or if the landlord doesn't agreee to repairs, the Department of Social Services will stop sending the rent pay-ment directly to the landlord. In-" stead, the department will send it to the tenant, who can choose to move out or negotiate with the landlord. Court flub 40VQ5 lT rs.f NOW Johns BaYR9bvSM 24 ontr- A 50 Reg.

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Boucher meant to instruct the jury about a manufacturer's duty to eliminate "foreseeable" risks, but instead was quoted as saying that manufacturers have a duty to eliminate "unforeseeable" risks. Goodspeed checked her shorthand notes of the October 1985 trial and found that Boucher did indeed use the correct word. But the error apparently came when the notes were typed, she said. Fritz's lawyer, Donald Turner, said he has asked the state appeals court to reconsider its decision. But John Buchanan, the lawyer representing the Snappy Power Equipment Division of Fuqua Industries noted that the justices cited one other trial error.

They said that Turner improperly appealed to the jury's sympathy when he asked whether someone would "sell the sight of one eye for a million dollars." The appeals court cautioned Turner not to make the same remark in a retrial. Acting Blues' chief calls for new credibility Associated Press DETROIT Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan's senior vice president has called for a restoration of credibility at the state's largest health insurer. Whitmer, 47, was named by the Blues board Wednesday as acting board chairman and chief executive after John McCabe was forced to step down. "We're entering a new era in which management and the board working together must develop a more open and cooperative partnership, must strive for a more harmonious relationship with state regulators and the Legislature and restore the corporation's image and credibility," he said. Whitmer, who also was general counsel to the insurer, will serve while a committee searches for a permanent successor to McCabe.

An audit committee had recommended in a Dec. 2 report that the directors "suspend John McCabe immediately." The audit followed accusations that McCabe and other top executives abused perquisites from the Insurer, including an allegation that a Blues subsidiary purchased a Florida condominium that was resold to the chief executive. The board also removed Thomas Bullen from his post as executive vice president and chief financial officer and reassigned him to a position with "less sensitive" responsibilities. Robert Reveley, a Blues vice president and chief executive officer of subsidiaries Health Service Co. and Michigan Medical Service also was demoted.

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