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"r']:.:;';-^\.-r •'• "-] - * - - *• -- ' •-" ; /h ',~:. h'.>:h^:Vh;h :.'';:~/ '..' - - - ;. -. -. _--/. - - - . r Volume 24 Number 6-1 Monday, January 16, 1989 "West'fancl rfi^TgarT" ^44-pages, Twpmy=tive;t!en tf^ ••»•" ™rMi™"™'™'" Jit'-M •',.:•. :4:>H*)ii4lt%>,--H4 ^ C1SS? Suburban ConVninVaUorj Corporation, All RJjriuR^ttvtd. 'Lenient' sentence spurs lawsuit As of Friday, no trial date had off easy, and he knows that he's goU ^— ^ By Tedd 8chnelder The charges against Shippy : been set. — teh^way with something." •-•- staff writer stemmed from—sexual — assaults The manias— — Mr. Shippy told the Observer that. JOHN SHIPPY, 53, was sentenced against two neighborhood children. he was told by his attorney not to sentenced to five years Enraged by what they feel is. an to five years probation by Detroit He was arrested In November after- discuss the suit. overly lenient sentence, a Westland Recorders Judge David Kerwin Webster's daughter told her parents probation for sexually couple has filed a lawsuit against the Webster expressed sorrow for her Tuesday. Kerwin also ordered Ship about the assaults. assaulting 2 girls. The man who sexually assaulted their 5- family's plight and bitterness toward py to undergo psychiatric treatment, A second girl, now 10, was also a year-old daughter and another girl." the justice system during a brief, perform 800 hours of community victim of sexual assaults on at least maximum penalty is 15 emotional telephone Interview service and banned him from mov five occasions dating back to 1984, years in prison. The civil suit was filed in Wayne' Thursday. She paused several times ing back to the Westland townhouse police said. T^EWAYNE-W^tUnd • County Circuit Court last week by to catch her breath, but didn't lose complex where the assaults took Second-degree criminal sexual school board will bold its first John and Lois Webster. It asks for her composure. place. conduct Involves illegal sexual con Urns while doing maintenance work regular businew meeting of the /- unspecified damages against John "He (Shippy) just doesn't show any The maximum penalty for second- tact with Juveniles, among other cir in the townhouse complex, police year 7 psa. Tuesday In the Shippy of Westland. Shippy's wife, signs of remorse," she said of the de degTee criminal sexual conduct Is 15 cumstances. '.district offices, Marquette pear; cision to file suit. "The judge let him Shippy had contact with the vic- Please turn to Page 3 - : Jill, is named as a co-defendant. years in prison. Carlson..^:: ':%^X-^--— '-• --'• -''; * Agendas afe available at the meeting or in idyiance from the superintendent's office. ?•. '..••.v- Police union, ~:; FOR US, it's the Chocolate? Nut Mela that are the sweet, ~ calorie kiss of death. So we're; glad .that it's that time of year : city at odds again — time for the annual:: Camp Fire Boys and Girls Candy Sale. :, -;•,.: :',\:-t-^^.':-':-^ ^-C¾a^I^f^^y^juD¾Jt¢nl?Ulb¾^ canvassing local neighborhoods, through Feb. 20. this year's i n c h i ef h i r e selection (drum roil, please) is as follows: Nut M«l*» Chocolate '" By Tedd 8chnelder Cream Mints, Chocolate Covered staff writer Cherries, Coconut Delights and v Peanut Crunch, all $3 per box; :- The union representing Westland's Peanut Meltaways and Assorted supervisory police employees Thurs • Cream Truffles, $5 per box., day took legal action to stop testing Cartp Fire Detroit Area for the appointment of a new police Council is a nonprofit volunteer " chief. organization for youths In Wayne, The Westland Police Sergeants Oakland,Macomb and Livingston and Lieutenants Association-main • Countles^--r--^~: -:::/:^ -y, h< v tains that the current civil service commission's eligibility list must be v used to fill the chief's job, vacated l U$Alk>NALpSO^ Jan. 2 when Fred Dansby retired to who trains at the Michigan >':-; accept the Job of Romulus public Academy of Gyinnas^ca ini--V safety director. WesUand, placed fourth in all- Inspector Paul Schnarr, currently around competltlob Jan. 8 at the serving as acting chief, is the only Great LakesTnviUUocal In : : person-on-the eliglbllity-ilsfc- Lansing. •.-.-^T;' , : 'h '< Mayor Charles Griffin, who will Paul Schnarr Lisa, 1^, also scored a 9.1 (on a appoint the new'chief, had asked for suit seeks promotion no-potar scale) to tl» balimce; promotional testing in order to es beam preliminaries and a 9.2 In tablish a new eligibility list. 78, the state civil service law, which the finals, good enough'for sixth In separate actions Thursday, the sets guidelines for police hiring, pro pUceinthateyent.i;- > association: motion and disciplinary procedures. Gymnasts Irom Michigan, ]-:h • Filed a grievance against the "The law is very clear," Guido Connecticut, Florida, niinola and city charging breach of contract. ' said. "It says eligibility lists must re Massachusetts competed. • • Filed an unfair labor practice main in effect for two years. charge against the city with the "Not 23 months, or 25 months, but ART EMANUELE/staff phoiographer Michigan Employment Relations two years exactly." THETRI-CITY • Commission. The current, eligibility list for the Therapeutic Swjm Program has A room full of new equipment, including a rocking chair, is part of the new infant and toddler day • Filed a lawsuit in Wayne Coun chief8 post was enacted Feb. 11, resumed its regular schedule /.-. care center to operf today at Schoolcraft College's Radctiff Center. Trying out the rocking chair Is 1987, after William Rechlin retired. : ty Circuit Court compelling the city foUowjngia br^ak for the '".; Dorothy Wltten, director of the college's child-care program. to immediately promote Schnarr to Dahshy and Schnarr were the only holidays, j - • ; ;-v the chief 8 Job. police officers eligible for the pro Swimmers meet 6^0*7:30 p.m. motional test two years ago.— Tuesdays at the Garden City A SHOW CAUSE hearing on the Griffin said Thursday he hadn't Community Pool, adjacent to. lawsuit has been scheduled for 9 seen a copy of the grievances or the Garden aty High School, 6500 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27 with Wayne Cir lawsuit so he would be unable to re Middlebelt. :^ Diaper 101 spond to specific charges. However, cuit Judge Kathleen MacDonald pre siding. Hearing dates for the other the mayor said he felt his plan was motions haven't been determined.— within established guidelines, • _^_ RICHARD DOZBUSH Frank Guido, the Livonia attorney "Act 78 says you ne^d a competi-. of Westland is helping make sure care is program representing the association, said the tlve test for eligibility, and I think the friendly skies stay that way. -mayor's plan to fill the chiefs Job competition for this kind of thing is Dozbusb has reported for duty, By Leonard Poger have had a big problem in finding weeks to 2W years, Witten said. after a new round of promotional good," he said. as an air traffic controller under' editor care, said Jill O'Sulllvan, a School - THE COLLEGE plans to have a testing is "a clear violation of the the auspices of the Federal craft employee who has a son, 3,in minimum of one student for every" city^ charter" and alsoMoJaJes Act Please turn to Page 2 Aviation Administration. Dozbush Shannon O'Sulllvan will make a the college's center for older pres four youngsters, although mostly It will work in the Great Lakee; v bit of local history today when she is choolers. "will be one student^or every two" Region. dropped off at a new Infant day-care The new center 4s the result of two youngsters. center — one of the few of its kind In years of study and planning, said Meanwhile, the FAA is still V "A need for an infant and toddler seeking air traffic control the state taking youngsters as young Dorothy Witten, director of the col as 6 weeks. day-care center 13 shown by (federal) Grandma helper lege's child development curriculum students: Interested people may government figures which report Shannon is only 9 months old and program. write the FAA, Department AC, ,- that 60 percent of working mothers the first infant to'enter the new In The center, housed in the Radcllff P.O. Box 2MW, Oklahoma City, have children 3 and under," Witten fant-toddler program housed at Center on Radcllff, south of Ford Oklahoma 731W. Candidates said. Schoolcraft College's Radcllff Cen and Just east of Wildwood in a for must be 30 w youngw. r deliver grandchild ter. The program begins today.' mer Garden City junior high school, "Most day-care centers only.take The girl is the daughter of Mlchael- -wiirbe primarily an educational pro youngsters 3 and older. Obviously, By Tedd Schneider staff writer Westland fire marshal. Foust com JULiE LOWE of Westland and Jill O'Sulllvan of Westland. gram for Schoolcraft's child-care there is a need not being met." pleted the delivery. has been named Employee of the Without the new Radcllff Center students, -, s Lynn Wilkenson was the first per "Everything."worked out fine," Month'for January at the* program for infants, they would Accepted will be infants from 6 Please turn to Page 3 son to see her newest grandchild, Wilkenson said.