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iff 'Michigan Lansing State Journal Tuesday, April 22, 1 986 folate Also: Capitol Digest State welfare rolls up temporarily Michigan's welfare rolls increased slightly in March but are expected to drop in the months ahead, according to the Department of Social Ser- viccs The DSS said Monday that Aid to Dependent Children rose by 1,315 cases, or 0.6 percent, to 224,330 cases at the end of March. General Assistance cases increased by 817, or 0.7 percent, to 122,160 cases. But that still reflected a drop of more than 21 percent over two years, the department said. The food stamp caseload decreased in March by "570 households, or 0.1 percent, to 389,429 households, a two-year drop of 14.2 percent Refinancing to save state millions Refinancing of state transportation revenue bonds will save Michigan taxpayers more than $4.4 million In interest costs, says a state transportation official. The Transportation Commission has taken advan- tage of declining interest rates and approved the refinancing of $203.2 million in bonds issued by the state between 1979 and 1984.

The interest savings will total $1.9 million on high-way bonds and $2.56 million on transportation bonds, the department said. 20,000 sign petitions on lawyer fees More than 20,000 signatures have been gathered in a petition drive seeking a constitutional amendment limiting lawyers' contingency fees in malpractice suits, a Grand Rapids-based group said Monday: The 85-member Citizens Liability Action Committee also has raised $25,000 to back its drive to collect 304,001 valid signatures by July 7, said spokesman G. William Sefton. Houghton Lake schools tinder suit Attorney General Frank Kelley has filed suit against Houghton Lake Community Schools over the district's refusal to make up class days canceled because of bad weather. The suit, requested by the State Board of Education, was filed Monday in Roscommon County Circuit Court Oral arguments are scheduled for May 5, said Dan Loepp, a spokesman for Kelley.

The Houghton Lake Board of Education vowed March 10 against making up the district's six "snow days" unless ordered' by a court Compiled from staff and Associated Press reports. fi build By PAT FITZGERALD Gannett News Service Republican gubernatorial con-tender Richard Chrysler, to build on growing name recognition gained from $500,000, worth of media advertisements, plans to -launch a second wave of television and radio commercials next week "The first wave was designed to get his name out in public," said Chrysler spokesman Rusty Hills, "to get him from 'Dick to Dick Chrysler, GOP candidate for governor. "Now we are going to identify Dick with issues, with what he stands for." Largely on the strength of three weeks of television advertising followed by a two-week radio campaign, Chrysler vaulted to the lead of the five-candidate race for the Republican nomination, according to a poll he commissioned in mid-March. The independently wealthy Chrysler can advertise early and often because he isn't accepting state matching funds, which relieves him of the requirement that he raise $50,000 in contributions of $100 or less: Chrysler owns Brighton-based Cars Concepts Inc. None of his Aug.

5 primary opponents Daniel Murphy, William Lucas, Colleen Engler and John Lauve have advertised on radio or television. Only Murphy and Lucas claim to have raised enough to qualify for matching funds. Their applications for two-for-one matching funds are being verified by the Secretary of State's of flee. Chrysler's second media blitz will begin Monday in the state's I II IM "1 whj 1 i lit mmmMm State asks 1 50th birthday stamp diss 3D jb'S I Terry Black, state Energy Administration di- rector, will announce the opening of the 1986-87 Community Energy Management program application process at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Capitol press room.

I A House bill amending the state's election law to set up new requirements for minor parties to qualify on the ballot will be discussed by the Senate Rules Committee at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Edwyna G. Anderson, one of three members of the Michigan Public Ser- vice Commission, has been elected vice chairwoman. PBB farms seek debt forgiveness Associated Press DETROIT Michigan should forgive the balance of about $6 million in loans it made to more than 120 Michigan farmers who lost livestock which ate PBB-con-taminated feed 13 years ago, says a lobbyist "Everyone else in the state has been able to forget PBB," said Pat Miller of Reed City.

"These people have had to live with it every single day for the past 10 years." Miller is coordinating support for a bill sponsored by state Rep. Ralph Ostling, R-Roscommon, to excuse the farmers from further repayment of the debt He said he would like to see Os-tling's bill amended to include reimbursing three farmers who paid of their loans. About 126 farmers were loaned up to $75,000 at low interest under a 1978 law. In exchange, they gave up their right to sue the companies' responsible for the contamination and permit the state to sue on their behalf. The state filed a suit against the PBB producer.

In the 1982 settlement the company agreed to pay $20 million for cleanup and $13.5 million to reimburse the state for investigating the contamination. Reimbursing farmers was forgotten, said Ostling. Ex-Colombian diplomat indicted Associated Press DETROIT A former Colombian diplomat and 23 others have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with an alleged international cocaine smuggling ring. A Detroit federal grand jury charged that Roberto C. Jaramillo of Bogota allegedly used his diplomatic status to help Stephen A.

Hagerman of the Detroit suburb of Birmingham bring cocaine into the United States without being searched, said U.S. Attorney Roy Hayes. Jaramillo, the South American country's consul general until 1983, was charged in the indictment with one count of conspiracy to import cocaine from January 1981 through December 1984. Stewart Body Dignance '-tt From 1 Amnesty come tax levy if the amnesty collection goes over $50 million. By and large, for every $1 million collected over the first $50 million, the rollback date will be pushed one day closer MOID Richard Chrysler: Building name recognition.

major markets. It will run' for three weeks, with spots appearing slightly less frequently than during his February onslaught "Given the results of the DMI (Decision Making Information) poll, we feel very comfortable," Hills said. Following Chrysler's initial media campaign, a DMI poll of 410 Republican primary election voters found that he was favored by 41 percent of voters compared with 27 percent for Wayne County Executive Lucas, 7 percent for Oakland County Executive Murphy, 4 percent for state Rep. Engler and 2 percent for General Motors engineer Lauve. "If we can spread-eagle the field this early, so be it The sooner we wrap this up the better.

We intend to run against (Democratic James) Blanchard," Hills said, "and we would rather do it sooner than later." things that made our state, yesterday and today." "More importantly, this spotlight will renew a sense of pride and the realization that these same qualities can guarantee a future that outshines anything we have seen so far," they wrote. The letter was signed by all 18 Michigan congressmen and the state's two U.S. senators. 1 The request is to be referred to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. the years, he said, the unit's focus has moved toward political corruption.

Kelley said that unless a case involves state officials accused of failing to uphold their oaths of office, the case is turned over to federal or local officials, as was done in the Brown case. "We probably turn over 80 percent of the cases we work on," he said. HOLMES FLORAL NATIONAL SECRETARIES WEEK BALLON ARRANGEMENTS COFFEE CUPS WITH FLOWERS TERRARIUMS AND OTHER FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS OPEN 7 DAYS M-Tb. 9-6 9-9 Sun. 1 1-3 3912 S.

Logan 393-0120 JOHN T. TIFFANY Owner Director FUNERAL HOME Wcst Saginaw; Ph. 521-221 1 I -1 Sffamq a News and NRC settle suit over open meetings Associated Press The state Natural Resources Commission (NRC) agreed Monday to abide by the state Open Meetings Act and to pay The Detroit News $1,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the News. The News charged in a suit filed April 11 that the NRC violated the Open Meetings Act by twice meeting in closed session, on April 4 and 9, to discuss the resignation of Department of Natural Resources Director Ronald Skoog and how to go about replac- inghim. The suit which sought $500 in damages, attorney fees and a ruling that the NRC violated the law, claimed the commission illegally met behind closed doors with Gov.

James Blanchard on April 4, the day after Skoog resigned. Blanchard wasn't involved in the April 9 meeting. Blanchard's press secretary, Richard Cole, said Attorney General Frank Kelley had told the governor's office that a meeting between the NRC and Blanchard would be exempt from the Open Meetings Act In the settlement entered Monday before Ingham County Circuit Judge Jack Warren, the NRC said it would not contest the News' suit. It agreed a majority of its members won't meet to deliberate toward a decision or to make a decision unless the meeting is open to the public or falls under specific exceptions outlined in the Open Meetings Act It also agreed a majority of its members won't meet in private to discuss Skoog's resignation, although it can meet behind closed doors to discuss an employee's performance. The News agreed the settlement won't restrict the right of the NRC to jneet with the gover-.

nor in private session when the governor calls for the meeting, as long as the commission doesn't talk about making a decision. "We believe the (April 4) meeting should have been open," said Richard Rassel, attorney for the News. "Their (the NRCs) press release makes it very clear that they requested the meeting with the governor." Parliament "There's no doubt in my mind the vast majority of British people' are behind what's been done, but we don't want war," he said. "The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to support what has been done." Stewart termed the protesters a "rent-a-mob." "It was a very small demonstration," Body said, describing some of demonstrators as punk rockers who show up at all demonstrations. The three, members of a select committee on agriculture, are studying U.S.

regulations on pesticides and their effects on human health in anticipation of similar legislation being introduced in. Parliament Fear of reprisal has caused concern, they admitted. Body termed terrorism a blight on the world. "It was not so many years ago one could travel the world without any fears," he said. MacLean said he hoped Americans' fear of traveling did not be SHOP A LARGE Man given chance for new trial Associated Press WASHINGTON Michigan's 20 members of Congress are urging the U.S.

Postal Service to issue a stamp commemorating next year's 150th anniversary of the state's admission to the union on Jan. 26, 1837. In a letter sent to Postmaster General Albert Casey, the legislators said the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Michigan's statehood "will illuminate our past, thus enabling us to see the Kelley From 1B But the attorney general noted that the late Adlai Stevenson, the former Democratic presidential candidate, once wrote a letter of recommendation for Alger Hiss, a convicted perjurer, "based on the sum of his life, not just one incident" Kelley said OCU was started in 1966 after two grand juries looked into organized crime and governmental corruption in Detroit The unit with four investigators based in Lansing and four in Detroit gathers intelligence about organized crime and suspected wrongdoing by public officials, he explained. The attorney general said he has helped set up similar units in other states, including Ohio and Massachusetts. As organized crime activity has declined over to Jan.

1, 1986, Bowman said. "Get to us before we get to you," is the amnesty slogan. "We've very serious," Bowman said. "After amnesty, tax cheats will be caught convicted and canned." viction by a jury, to being an habitual offender with six felony convictions. Robert Ebersole, Ingham County Prosecutor's Office appeals specialist said Nash must be resentenced on the assault charge and given the choice of again pleading guilty to the supplemental information or standing trial.

The appeals court ruled that Circuit Judge Thomas Brown failed to inform Nash of his right to be presumed innocent when he accepted the guilty plea on the habitual criminal charge. las' as much as anyone over-here," he said. Body said reports that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher may be in political trouble because of the British support for the American planes were "absolute rubbish." A few critics in the Conservative Party would like her job," he said. By DICK FRAZIER Lansing State Journal i A man convicted nearly two years ago of beating a self-described prostitute with a tire iron when she tried to break off their relationship has won another day in court. The state Court of Appeals ordered a resentencing on the felonious assault conviction of, Frankie Thomas Nash and the chance for a new trial in his sentencing for 10 to 15 years in prison.

Nash pleaded guilty in October 1984, after his assault con From 1B gin to affect the nation's outlook. "I hope America does not become too isolationist" MacLean said, adding there is more danger crossing a street than in vacationing in Europe. Stewart noted that he came to Michigan after spending some time last week in Washington, which has a relaxed atmosphere compared to London, he said. "You can walk into a building without a complete body search. You may have to tighten regulations on entry to government buildings," he warned.

"We are used to terrorism in the U.IC," MacLean said. "We've had it so long." MacLean said that some anti-American sentiments may be due to the United Kingdom's role as second fiddle. "Some feel we are not exerting enough independence," MacLean said. Body said there is tremendous affection in the U.K. for the U.S.

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