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7 TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH. Tuesday April 28, 1981 Sanilac County's unemployment rate in March showed its first decline in 1981, according to statistics released today by the Michigan Employment Security Commission. The March rate stood at 21.9 Jobless 23 percent; percent. February's Unemployment rate was stood at 22 percent in January. rate drops in 1 St.

Meanwhile, Clair County unemployment also dropped from 14.9 percent in slighlty March. February The to 13.8 county's percent total la- in bor force of 61,375 people has 8,450 out of work who are seeking jobs. In February, 9,100 St. Clair County workers were without jobs. Sanilac's labor force of 15,100 has 3,300 people out of Woman to 2nd-dregree Clarice L.

Rohn pleaded guilty Monday before Circuit Judge James T. Corden, St. Clair County, to a charge of second-degree murder. Rohn, 43, Fair Haven, was convicted twice when tried on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in the rifle killing of her husband, Albert, 40. The Michigan Court of Appeals each time granted Rohn a new trial.

Rohn's third trial was scheduled for June 16, but a plea agreement was reached Monday by Prosecutor Robert H. Cleland and Rohn's lawyer, Gary Fletcher. Rohn previously had been given the option of pleading guilty to second-degree murder, and she took the option instead of going through the third trial. Corden referred Rohn to the Probation Department for presentence investigation and continued her bond at $50,000. Rohn has been free on bond since March 9.

Second-degree murder carries a sentence of up to life in prison. Rohn, who has been in custody Rape investigated POLICE Port Huron police are investigating the reported rape Monday of an 18-year-old Port Huron woman. The woman, who was treated in Port Huron Hospital, said her attacker was a former boyfriend, police said. A 21-year-old Port Huron man is expected to be questioned today in connection with the assault. The incident occurred in the woman's home, police said.

Man fined $300 SANDUSKY Harold Rush, 75 Matthew Pontiac, pleaded guilty last week to making a false police report. District Judge Richard P. Riordan, Sanilac County, sentenced Rush to pay $200 restitution and $300 in fines and court costs. RECORDS Fire calls MONDAY MARYSVILLE: 3:37 p.m., 840 Huron false alarm, returned at 3:48 p.m. FORT GRATIOT TOWNSHIP: 7:45 p.m., North Road, east of Wadhams Road, grass fire.

TUESDAY KIMBALL TOWNSHIP: 4:04 a.m., 6001 Smiths Creek Road, gas main fire. ST. CLAIR: 4:35 a.m., 1900 Jackson house fire, returned at 4:53 a.m. 5:50 a.m., 700 Brown Edison wire down, returned at 7:20 a.m. Vessel passages FROM THE SOO LOCKS UP MONDAY AM King Carnahan Wm.

Clay UP MONDAY PM London 1:45 Manitoulin Lac Ste. Anne .......7:05 Amoco 10 Dykstra DOWN MONDAY AM Tadoussac (O) ........................9: 15 DOWN MONDAY PM Yannis D. (St. L) .12:45 Murray Bay (St. work.

The number stood at 3,475 in February. Traditional spring upturns in the construction industry, along with minor improve ments in auto-related nesses, helped account for the slight decline in Sanilac's unemployment figures, said Lyle Lee, manager of the commission's Port Huron office. Lee said the same reasons account for more St. Clair County residents going back to work in March. The trend should continue through the summer, he said.

"There also have been no great layoffs to put a dent in things, either," Lee said. Despite the decline in the March jobless rate, the figure still remains higher than March 1980, when 11.4 percent of St. Clair County's workers were without jobs. The March 1979 rate stood at 8.9 percent. While Sanilac's unemployment rate remains high, it still is well under the 29 percent rate posted in Alcona County and the 27.1 percent rate for Benzie County.

Carol Fletcher, a labor market analyst in the commission's Detroit office, said most counties in northern lower Michigan and in the Upper Peninsula have unemployment rates as high or higher than Sanilac's. Statewide, unemployment eased in all but one of the commission's 13 labor regions. In the Bay City area, unemployment climbed from 1.7 to 14.9 percent in March. Sandusky schools sue computer firm SANDUSKY The Board of handle the payroll and monitor Education has filed suit in Sanilac the budget. County Circuit Court to recover Attempts to negotiate with spent in 1979 for a com- roughs for technical assistance or puter that didn't work.

a cash refund were unsuccessful, The suit, filed last week a against Superintendent Robert Bass said. the Burroughs asks that The board voted in January 1980 the court order the firm to take to return to the old bookkeeping back the defective equipment, re- system and to contract with the fund the $13,000, and pay damages Intermediate School District to in excess of $10,000, including le- have payroll checks prepared on gal costs. a computer there. Bass said the company recently The suit charges the Burroughs offered to install new equipment Corp. with selling a computer that without additional cost to the diswould not do the work it was sup trict and to provide technical posed to do, refusing to make nec- help.

essary repairs, and refusing to "We are asking why Burroughs take the defective computer in ex- didn't think of this two years ago. change for a full refund. What we want now is to have The school bought the computer them take the equipment back in September 1979, but school offi- and return our money," Bass cials said they could not get it to said. Seminar will probe death A seminar on death and dying will be presented from 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday by the Association of Retarded Citizens of St.

Clair County's aging project. The seminar will be in the conference room at the project site, 2939 Lapeer Road. Patricia Stewart, R.N., and Sister Beverly Hindson, both from Mercy Hospital, will speak. TV HIGHLIGHTS TODAY East China to register tots The East China School District 200 N. Carney Drive, St.

Clatt, will hold kindergarten registra- and Washington Elementary tions at 1 the elementary schools School, 403 Mary Marine City, this week. Wednesday. Eddy Elementary School, 301 The registration sessions, which N. Ninth St. Clair, and Belle are from 8 a.m.

to 4 p.m., are as River Elementary School, King follows: and Chartier Roads, Marine City, East China Elementary Thursday. School, 1585 Meisner Road, East Palms Elementary China Township, today. 6101 Palms Road, Ira Township, Gearing Elementary School, Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS To place Entertainment, Club Meetings Miscellaneous Notices in this column, Dial 985-7171 Ext. 319 Inside Port Huron Hot Pasties.

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Tole Classes- now forming. House of Crafts 364-5736. 12-4. NEWS guilty murder since 1974, may be given credit for time served since 1974. She could receive immediate parole, depending on the sentence' she is given.

The Haven mother of nine was convicted by circuit court juries in 1975 and 1978 and has been serving two life sentences in the Huron Valley Women's Facility, Ypsilanti. The appeals court first granted a new trial when it said Circuit Judge Halford I. Streeter, now retired, erred by not i instructing the jury that Rohn could be convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The second reversal came when the court of appeals ruled the jury members indirectly were told by the prosecutor that they were agents of God. Rohn's husband was found shot to death in their Fair Haven restaurant Aug.

19, 1974. Rohn i is charged with hiring a man for $20 to kill her husband. Rohn, who said she was mad at her husband for beating her, had previously maintained that she only wanted her husband beaten, not killed. 5 plead innocent to drug charges Five people, arrested by members of the Special Operations Division of the Port Huron Police Department during the weekend, all pleaded innocent Monday before District Judge Richard A. Cooley St.

Clair County, to narcotics violations. Vicky Winch, 21, and Gary W. Driver, 19, both of 3111 Lapeer Road, Port Huron, both pleaded innocent to charges of delivery of LSD. Cooley set bond at $5,000 for Driver and $2,000 for Winch pending a preliminary examition May 7. Driver is charged with an offense Nov.

7, 1980, and Winch is charged with an offense Nov. 5, 1980, at 3111 Lapeer Road. Patrick A. Whitt, 18, of 35020 23 Mile Road, New Baltimore; Lori Perdue, 18, of 10th Port Huron, and Kenneth A. Fenelli, 19, of 1912 7th Port Huron, all pleaded innocent to charges of delivery of marijuana.

Cooley set bond at $2,000 each pending a preliminary examination May 7. Fenelli is charged with an fense Jan. 30, Whitt with an offense April 2, and Perdue with an offense Oct. 31, 1980, all in Port Huron. Motorist injured Arthur D.

Langolf was injured Sunday when his car struck a parked car and chain length fence in the 1800 block of Stone Street in Port Huron. Langolf, 20, of 307 14th Port Huron, was treated in Port Huron Hospital. As reported to area police agencies PORT HURON 1119 Lapeer a television and baby, pajamas were reported stolen Friday. Barbru Grocery, 2740 Gratiot Monday, an inventory i is being made to determine what was stolen. Dowd Brother's Total Service Station, 1301 Military Monday, tools were reported stolen.

COTTRELLVILLE TOWNSHIP 7422 Arnold Road, Sunday, a check is being made to determine what was stolen. ALGONAC 929 Summer Sunday, a diamond ring, two shotguns and a stereo system were reported stolen. PORT HURON TOWNSHIP 999 24th Monday, trailer springs valued at $300 were among items reported stolen. If you have something to sell, buy, rent or trade, The Times Herald Classified Want Ad Depart3 Sealpoint Siamese kit- ment will be glad to assist tens, 6 weeks old, $15, you. 000-0000.

Call US today and place SOLD ALL OF THEM ON THE FIRST your easy and profitable. Call Classifieds for the BEST 985-7171 or TOLL FREE 800-462-4057 Ask for Classified The Times Herald OBITUARIES More obituaries on pages 5B and 6B Mrs. Dorothy L. Good PORT HURON Services for Dorothy L. Good, 43, of 1502 Richardson will be held at 11 a.m.

Thursday in the Arthur Smith Funeral Homes-North Chapel. Dr. John N. Howell of the Washington Avenue United Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Kenneth Koob, Dennis Sharrow, David Boehm, Edward Burtch Ray Slumpff and Jerry DeWitte. Honorary pallbearers will be Edward Burtch, John F. Adams, Clayton Berdan and John Bachmann. Mrs. Good died Monday, April 27, 1981, in Port Huron Hospital after a short illness.

She was the wife of L. Richard Good. She was a member of the DeMolay Mothers Club. Funeral home visiting hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and Wednesday.

Chapter 170, OES, will conduct memorial services at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Blue Water Council, Boy Scouts of America, or the DeMolay Mothers Club. Robert E. McKenzie MARYSVILLE Services for Robert E.

McKenzie, 72, of 1990 River Road, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Port Huron. The Rev. Robert L.

Wurm, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverlawn Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Robert Scott and Michael McKenzie, John Goddard, Donald Baird, Edgar and John Prevost, Ronald Nurenberg and Robert E. Smith. Mr.

McKenzie died Monday, April 27, 1981, in Mercy Hospital, Port Huron, after a short illness. He was the husband of the former Ida May Prevost. Visiting hours are from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

A wake service will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to St. Christopher's Catholic Church Building Fund. Mrs.

Velma M. Prong YALE Velma M. Prong, 55, of 13 McColl formerly of Cass City, died Monday, April 27, 1981, in her home after suffering a heart attack. She was born May 21, 1925, in Waufeon, Ohio, and had lived in Yale since 1978. She married Harold C.

Prong May 20, 1945, in Fort Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Prong was associate matron of Chapter 64, OES. She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Gaylene, Yale; two sons, Jeffery, Lincoln Park, and Santiago, Chile; three sisters, Mrs. Eleanor' Woods, Princeton, Mrs.

Leona Underwood and Mrs. Carma Sutton, both of Morenci; three brothers, Grove Rice, Texas, the Rev. Randall Rice, Wichita, and Verlin Rice, Liberty Center, Ohio; and five grandchildren. A sister, Margaret, died earlier. Services will be held at 1 p.m.

Thursday in the Countryside Christian Church. Visiting hours are from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Kaatz Funeral Home. Chapter 64, OES, will conduct memorial services at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Countryside Christian Church Building Fund. Harold L. Smith SARASOTA, Fla. Harold L.

Smith, 61, died Tuesday, March 31, 1981, in his home after a short illness. Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in Port Sanilac Cemetery. The Times Herald (USPS 438-700) A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Vol. 71, No.

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