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POLICE AND FIRE APARTMENT FIRE: An electrical

system overload caused $500 in damages to an apartment house at 28 S. Broad St. at 12:32 a.m. Friday, the Battle Creek Fire Department said. No one was in-jured and damage was minimal. The apartment is owned by Terranee Coleman.

SENTENCINGS Sentenced recently by Circuit Court

Judge Conrad J. Sinat: Ronald Lewis Robinson,

19, 360 Parkway Drive, pleaded guilty to resisting and obstruct-ing a police officer and attempted carrying a concealed weapon; jail sentence of 90 days on both counts, 21 days credited on both counts. $100 fine, $1,000 costs, $60 crime victim. $375 attorney fee, $10 a month supervision fee, 36 months probation, sentences to run concurrently. Defendant must obtain GED within first year of probation, subject to random drug and urinalysis testing, sub-mit to substance abuse-evaluation and complete any recommended treatment.

Ernest Devall Gates, 35, 35 Springview Drive, pleaded guilty to attempted receiving and con-cealing over $100; sentenced to six months in jail, 19 days cred-ited, must serve 60 days forth-with. balance suspended to end of probation, may be released to House of Commons when bed be-comes available, $100 fine, $1,000 costs, restitution to be deter-mined, $60 crime victim, $414.25 attorney fee, $240 at $10 a month supervision fee, 2 years proba-tion. Defendant shall undergo long term rehabilitation and men-tal health counseling.

Willie James Humphrey, 34, 14 E. Grand Circle, pleaded no contest to possession of co-caine less than 25 grams; sen-tenced to 18 months to 48 years in jail, sentence to run consecu-tively to current B & E and Bank robbery, $60 crime victim, $150 forensic fee.

Richard D. Brown, 31, Correction Center, pleaded guilty to escape from prison; sentenced to 18 months to 60 months in jail, sentence to run consecutively with B & E occupied dwelling unit 5-15 years, $60 crime victim fee.

Michael Lee Morrissette, 18, 266 Taft Court, Apt. B20, pleaded no contest to resisting and obstructing a police officer; sentenced to 90 days in jail, 2 days credited, $60 crime victims fee.

Darren Ansel Matthews, 30, 401/2 High Street, pleaded no contest to attempted larceny over $100; sentenced to 90 days in jail, 38 days credited, $100 fine, $1,000 costs, $1080 supervision fees to be paid $30 monthly, $60 crime victim, $37 attorney fee, 36 months probation, substance abuse assessment/treatment, random urinalysis and /o r breathalyzer, no possession or use of controlled substances or alcohol.

James Ersel Mason, 39, 313 N. Grand, Marshall, pleaded no contest to child abuse - third (Jegree; sentenced to 6 months in jail; 3 days credited, $100 fine, $1,000 costs, $960 supervision fee at $20 monthly, $60 crime vic-tim, $375 attorney fee, 48 months probation.

Eugene Phillip Wilson, 21, ^7 Sharon St., pleaded guilty to larceny in a building; sentenced t;o 32 to 48 months maximum, 379 days credited, $60 crime victims fee, $250 in restitution as a condi-tion of parole.

S T O C K S , from Page 1A hundreds and hundreds of people, closed plants - and it's come at a very human cost but you're finally going to see the benefits of all those actions."

While the stock split itself doesn't make any more money for the com-pany or its shareholders, it makes shares more affordable, Tim Hutson, investment executive at First of Michigan Corporation, said.

"Kellogg is obviously a quality com-pany that could be viewed as a good long-term investment," Hutson said. "1 think Kellogg Co.'s future may be a bit cloudy right now as to whether they can sustain record earnings."

John McMillin, analyst for Prudential Securities, said the second quarter earnings announcement was a pleasant surprise.

"I don't want to put cold water over the positive surprise but it was helped by a lower tax rate," he said. "Kellogg is kind of back to where it was two years ago. You can certainly make the argument that Kellogg has turned around trends.

"The issue now going forward is can they make continued progress from this new base?"

He said Wall Street seems to be too quick to criticize companies whose stocks are doing badly and too quick to praise those that are performing well.

Patrick Schumann, analyst for Edward Jones, agreed that analysts may have underestimated Kellogg's strength.

"They've gotten back on track in the ready-to-eat cereal industry after losing market share for the better part of 1996," he said. "They're start-ing to regain points."

The company has stabilized its op-erations, but it still faces tough com-petition in the domestic cereal market, he said.

OUR COMMUNITIES BATTLE CREEK Power failure stalls downtown businesses

A switdr failure that occurred while crews (were working on power lines Friday caused an outage affecting 329 customers in downtown Battle Creek.

The switch on Consumers Energy Co.'s Elm Street substation failed at 11:20 a.m. as crews were working at Van Buren Street and United Way Drive to rebuild a circuit to place un-derground, company spokesman Tim Pietryga said.

The sudden loss of . power set off fire alarms at several businesses, in-cluding Clara's on the River restau-rant and TIG Insurance.

The power outage set off smoke alarms on the second and fourth floors of TIG Insurance, Battle Creek Fire Department Battalion Chief Charles Yarger said. Employees at TIG had started evacuating the build-ing before firefighters arrived in re-sponse to a report of smoke. There was no fire.

Power also delayed part of the press run for the Battle Creek Enquirers Friday edition.

Local residents stand by during landings

When a large Air Force plane prac-ticed landings at W.K Kellogg Airport Friday, it was of special interest to some Battle Creek residents.

Lt. Gregg Hesterman, 27, based at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., was pi-loting the plane that did several prac-tice landings.

His wife, the former Amy Ecklund, was born in Battle Creek, and Hesterman called her father and step-

Baby rescued from bridge

J O H N F L E S H E R Associated Press

The drawbridge over the Manistee River was one-quarter of the way up as a 37-foot sailboat passed beneath. Suddenly there were shouts and a woman screaming, "My baby! My baby!"

"I had no idea what was hap-pening," operator Floyd Wether-ell said. "But something told me to stop the bridge, so I did."

Somehow, a woman pushing a stroller bearing her 18-month-old granddaughter had gotten onto the bridge.

The woman plunged about 25 feet into the water through the gap between the street and the north end of the bridge. The stroller slid into the opening and was wedged there.

Instead, the woman was pulled from the river by one of the boat's passengers. She reeked of alcohol, said Suzette Lee, the boat's owner. The baby, who had been strapped into the stroller, was freed without a scratch.

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2 APPOINTED TO BOARD Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, a neurosur-

geon, and Carleton "Corly" S. Fiorina, president of Lucent Technologies' Consumer Products busi-ness, were appointed to the Kellogg Co. Board of Directors.

Carson is the diredor of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He has become known inter-nationally for treating se-vere neuro-surgical disorders, particularly in children. The Detroit native received a medical degree from the University Michigan Medkal School and a bache-lor's degree from Yale University.

Fiorina oversees the business unit at Lucent's Network Systems that designs, manufactures, sells, services and leases communications products for consumer, small office and home office use. She re-ceived a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School and a master's of business administration degree in marketing from 4he University of Maryland. She has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University. ' > i i HfliT - ' f

mother, Les and Linda Ecklund, to say he would be making several brief stops in the Cereal City.

Tlie Ecklunds were joined by Amy's grandparents, Robert and Dorothy Ecklund, at the airport, to watch the plane.

HOMER Foundation assists park renovations

The village of Homer will be getting a new look come spring.

The city has just received a $1.13 million grant awarded by the W K Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, through the Foundation's Kellogg Youth Initiatives Program, to revital-ize their park system.

Plans call for the development of several parks, many which will be connected by a linear park for joggers and walkers.

The project will include a pair of pavilions and an observation tower to view wildlife. There also will be picnic tables, restroom facilities^ grills, and playground equipment available.

At the Grist Mill location, plans call for a large gazebo, a covered bridge, an extensive playground system, picnic ta-bles, grills, benches, and a bridge.

Still in the planning stages is the de-velopment of a park geared toward more active sports on a piece of vil: lage-owned land between Sprague and Piatt Streets.

The park would include a sand vol-leyball court and a basketball court that would be converted into an ice skating rink in the winter.

A park on Webster Street (251/2-Mile Road) will feature an arched bridge across the river, picnic tables and benches.

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curbside or otherwise, even though it would run into thousands of dollars in costs." Doud said. "It's better than do-ing nothing."

"Whatever we do, we have to think about how to control the problem in the future," Maichele said.

STAKEHOLDER IDEA? Another option, supported by

Emmett Township Public Safety Chief Murray Switzer, is a program designed for long-term trash control, called the community pride-stake-holder concept.

Under the stakeholder idea, the township police force's Community Oriented Policing program officers would work in targetea areas of the township to help residents build pride in their neighborhoods.

The policing program, paid for in part by the federal government, is de-signed to get officers out on the streets and closer to community resi-dents.

"We could target neighborhoods

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K H R I S T I N E E L L I O T T The Enquirer

Local Kellogg shareholders say they're happy about the stock split and record earnings, but some are worried about the com-pany's direction.

"I'm real pleased with it," John Taylor, a Kellogg retiree and stockholder, said. "I believe it will be steady. I have every bit of con-fidence in it."

The Marshall resident worked for Kellogg for 26 years and has owned stock in the company since 1976.

Other local stockholders were not as confident about the com-pany's future.

"It's great for Kellogg. It's great for our stock," Doug Markusic of Battle Creek said.

But his wife, Judy, worked full-time for the company for almost nine years before her job was cut last year. She has since returned to Kellogg as a temporary sum-mer worker.

At the Kellogg stockholders meeting in April, Markusic criti-cized the company for cutting 685 workers locally last year.

He said he doesn't believe the local job cuts were necessary be-cause existing workers are work-ing a lot of overtime.

Shareholder Phil Cortright of Battle Creek said he is still cau-

Witness claims her conscience forced her to testify

T R A C E C H R I S T E N S O N The Enquirer

Sharon Zachary admitted she killed an 80-year-old Emmett Township man, a jail inmate testified Friday.

But after Michelle McCor-mick told her story from the witness stand. Defense Attor-ney John Hof-man called her "just an unbeliev-able person."

McCormick, in jail on an embez-zlement charge, said Zachary told her in June that she argued with Robert Rogers over money and killed him with a metal pipe.

"She said she had misappropri-ated funds of Mr. Rogers and they got into an argument," McCormick said. "She said she got into an argu-ment and hit him and then made it look like a burglary and then kicked in the door."

McCormick said Zachary told her she threw the pipe in a pond behind Rogers home at 1015 S. Raymond Road.

Rogers' body was found April 26,

KEVIN HARE/THE ENQUIRER Garbage and tires litter die side of River Road in Emmett Township.

for cleanup, working with the resi-dents so they can become stakehold-ers in their areas," Switzer said.

"I don't know whether it's a combination of lower grain prices and they got rid of a lot of help, a lot of people. Sometimes you can look real good when you cut a lot of overhead out."

- Phil Cortright, Kellogg shareholder

tious about the company's future. He has owned Kellogg stock since 1960.

"A lot of other stocks have out-performed (expectations) too," he said.

"I don't know whether it's a combination of lower grain prices and they got rid of a lot of help, a lot of. people.

"Sometimes you can look real good when you cut a lot of over-head out."

He said he thinks the company spent too much money buying Lenders' Bagels.

The company purchased it in December 1996 for $455 million, it largest acquisition ever.

Company officials have said the acquisition is part of a long-term strategy of diversifying its break-fast food offerings.

1996 in the living room of his home. An autopsy showed he had been

. beaten 25 to 30 times in the head. Investigators recovered a pipe from one of the ponds and laboratory ex-perts testified during the trial they believe the pipe is the murder weapon.

A sliding glass door was found shattered and police said a footprint on the glass matched a pair of shoes Zachary was wearing the day of the murder. Her thumbprint also was found on the belt Rogers was wear-ing.

She was arrested in December and faces murder, felony murder and armed robbery charges. Hof-man is expected to open his case Tuesday when the trial moves into the fourth week.

Zachary has denied she killed Rogers and Hofman has suggested a better suspect is Rogers' son, Donald, or some of the people who robbed the elderly man. Police have said he was known to carry large sums of cash.

McCormick neared the end of the prosecution's case. Detective Sgt. Dale Peet of the Michigan State Police discussed his interviews with. Zachary before she was arrested in December.

During a July 1996 interview, Peet testified Zachary denied six or eight times that she was involved.

But McCormick said Zachary be-gan to talk about the case as the trial drew closer. She was nervous, McCormick said, and angry as po-lice continued to talk to her hus-band, Michael Zachary.

At first Zachary made jokes about the case.

"She said if she hadn't given them

on corner as punishment

Associated Press

IWATERFORD TOWNSHIP ' Some might think the punish-ment a little harsh. Fifteen-year-old Matt Berney stood on a busy street corner for three days wear-ing a makeshift sandwich sign apologizing for breaking the law.

But it wasn't a court that handed down this sentence. It was his mother/ and her boyfriend, who gave Matt a choice of the street corner or be-ing grounded for 30 days.

"I come from a family of six bpys and my father always gave me an option (in punishment)," said the boyfriend, Jim ' Courtney. .

"Thirty days is pretty stiff, so I told him I would take off 10 days ' for every four hours he stood out on a street corner wearing a, sign."

Matt chose the sign which reads: "My name is Matt Berney. I ' took an unregistered ATV and ran from the Water ford Township Police and I am sorry."

The teen was riding his four-wheel, all terrain vehicle through Dodge Park last. Sunday.

He knew the off-the-road per-mit on the vehicle had expired. So when police tried to stop him, . tie sped off. The police were, close behind.

Matt said he's received mixed reactions.

"Some people have said some rough things as they go by, but some have been real nice, too," Matt said.

her tennis shoes she wouldn't be in jail," McCormick said.

But then one afternoon she told McCormick she had killed Rogers.

"I was shocked, I didn't think she had done it."

McCormick said she contacted the Calhoun County Prosecutor's Office and met with investigator Gerald Woods on June 13.

'She said she told Woods about some general admissions Zachary. had made. Later that same day, Zachary was angered after receiving documents from Hofman, McCor-mick said, and was more specific about the murder, especially about using the pipe to kill Rogers and then throwing it in a pond.

McCormick, 28, said she con-tacted Woods about two hours after her first meeting with him and told him more about Zachary's admis-sions.

She was not given anything in ex-change for her testimony, McCor-mick said, and only notified authorities because of her con-science.

But Hofman questioned her care-fully about her past. McCormick agreed she could be considered an habitual liar.

She is serving a year in jail after failing to complete a three-year pro-bation on a 1994 embezzlement charge.

And in 1992 she told Battle Creek police she had been kidnapped and taken to Chicago. But police discov-ered she went on her own with $7,200 she was supposed to deposit in a bank.

McCormick also said she was con-victed of embezzlement in 1987 in jOttawa County.

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