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The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 6, 1977-Page'

Blind mother gets provisional custody of kids

Sen. Rie

By DENISE FOX
Linda Gill, the blind mother whose
children were removed from her
custody almost two years ago can get
them back if she proves she really,
wants and can care for them, an.
Ingham County Probate Court judge
ruled yesterday afternoon.
Judge Donald Owens gave Gill 90
days to demonstrate she can be a
good mother: to her three children,
two of whom are also blind.
IN 1975, the court attempted to
sever Gill's parental rights after she.
divorced her husband, and moved to
California, leaving her three sons
with her mother, who is blind as well.
Gill, 26, said she intended to send
for her children as soon as she was
settled.
The mother had claimed she was
being discriminated against because
she was female, poor and blind. Her
supporters included the American
Civil Liberties Union, the Black
Panther Party and the Center for
- Independent Living, an organization
for the physically disabled.
"LINDA GILL sgriously neglected

her children both physically and
emotionally," Owens said during
yesterday's trial. "She left them in
improper custody, in effect abandon-
ing them when she left for California
in 1975."

OWENS made the children per-
manent wards of the court, but
delayed that order for 90 days to give
Gill a final chance to prove herself.
"If she wants to gain custody,"
Judge Owens said, "Mrs. Gill will

GILL SAID she considers the
decision a victory, in spite of the
90-day trial period.
"We feel like we've won because
they're not putting the kids up for
adoption," she said.

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the past, and although 17lladmit I've made

some mistakes,
children.'

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During the five-day hearing, social
workers said Gill's children now
aged seven, six and four, were in
poor physical and emotional health
when they were taken from their
r grandmother and placed in foster
homes.
Other witnesses testified that Gill
l kept a filthy house, left her children
alone when she went to bars and
failed to meet their health needs.
Court records show Gill showed up
for only one of many court hearings
held over the past two years on the
custody matter.
In January of 1977, Gill's ex-
husband, Whitney Codling Jr. was
given custody of the children, but a
month later, gave them back. Cod-
ling, who was also blind, had
remarried a sighted woman.

check ess
(Continued from Page 1)
The bill would shift the burden of
liability from the consumer to the bank.
Siegal said that banks do not presen-
tly have to document each transaction
on EFT as they do with checks. The
Riegle bill would require full disclo
sure from all institutions using the sys-
tem.
PERHAPS THE most important
measure in the bill, scheduled for Sen-
ate action in March would limit a con-
sumer's liability for unauthorized
EFT's and protect the consumer's right
to privacy by placing strict limitations
on who may receive account activity
data, according to Riegle's office.
Since a single number is assigned to
the buyer in an EFT, there is concern
among consumer advocates that com-
panies will trade lists and make them+
public information.
Michigan statutes make EFT sys-
tems unprofitable here, but banking in-
terests are currently lobbying to make
the expensive computer set-up worth-
while, according to State Chief Deputy
Commissioner of Banking Russell
Kropschot.Jh
"THERE JUST ISN'T the legislation

gle's bill
et r
Susers of g..~
banking"'.
there to provide for it," Kropschot said.
Laws now prohibit banks from branch-
ing out more than 25 miles. Since the
system is only profitable if you have a
lot of activity, he said, the banks a
trying to exempt EFT outlets from A
Kropschot added that one of his of-
fice's concerns is the invation of .prbi
vacy.
"It's a whole new philosophy- in
banking to take the people out of -the,
banks and into the stores," said Ja
Aldrich, assistant vice presiden
Huron Valley National Bank. Aldi'
said that the "total teller" at Hur;
Valley "quite possibly" could be treir,
formed into an EFT system.
THREE ANN ARBOR banks hhve
electronic tellers: Huron Valley, Aid
Arbor Bank and Trust, and National'
Bank and Trust Co. of Ann Arbor.
But don't expect these three banksto_
be issuing the "ultimate numbers",'
the near future. On Tuesday afternoons
a Huron Valley employe, loaded dowp;
with papers, rushed up to Aldrich to tell
him that both automatic tellers were
out of order..

Gill said she was very glad to be
given the chance to regain custody of
her children, but questioned why she
had to prove she was a fit mother.
"The judge felt there was serious
neglect in the past, and although I'll
admit I've made some mistakes, I've
never neglected my children," Gill
said.

'have to move back to Michigan,
finish high school, seek therapy, take
'parenting' classes and gradually
help care for her sons."
"If she does these things, the
children will be returnedito her,"
Owens said. "If not. they will be
made permanent wards. It's up to
her."

City officials shaken up in investment crisis

(Continued from Page1)
police review of the scandal by Police
Chief Walter Krasney, concluded
that the June 30-July 1 transactions
"may be considered a cover-up
action."
LEVIN REACTED to his firing
angrily, calling it "a bum rap." "I
think I've been the low man on the
totem pole who has gotten saddled
with this thing by Mr. Murray," he
said, "because he had to show City
Council that he's done something
about the investments."
City Councilman Jamie Kenworthy
(D-Fourth Ward) last week called for
careful scrutiny of the city's finan-
cial system and the actions of city
officials in the debacle.
"I was told by the city administra-
tion not to talk to the press," Levin
said. "I thought they were looking
out for my best interests, but

obviously they were looking for a
scapegoat.:.
"BUT THIS THING is far from
over. There is an appeal procedure
and some other recourses," he
continued. "I expect to be reinstat-
ed."
Jedele will begin a hedical leave
on October 10 and will retire after
his accumulated leave time has
expired. Jedele, who had a heart
attack 10 years ago, said the entire
affair was "more than I can stand
physically."
City Treasurer John Bentley will
temporarily replace Jedele.
Hendel's demotion, essentially a
cut in pay, was necessary because of
his "participation in the arbitrage
transactions by initialing journal en-
tries, and showing concern depart-
mentally about the propriety of such
transactions, but failing to assume

effective action to compel his super-
ior (Jedele) to respond to his
concern," according to Murray.
MURRAY'S OWN assistant Pat-
rick Kenney also has been given a
written reprimand for his "lack of
effective responsiveness" to the cris-
is.
In addition, Murray has asked the
city's outside auditing firm, Icer-
man, Johnson and Hoffman, to
replace their present representative
to the city, Donald Booth.
Murray disputed Booth's claims
made in a meeting on Sept. 14.
According to Murray, Booth said,
"Sometime last spring that the city
may be engaging in arbitrages, and
he cautioned the controller's office on
the the prudence of such invest-
ments." However, Murray said,
Booth conveyed no such caution to
his office.

'U' seems indifferent to guidelines

ICERMAN, JOHNSON and Hoff-
man is presently completing an
audit of the city's accounts. That
audit will be followed by a handful of
investigations by various agencies.
The Hawkins report will be passed
on to City Council Monday night as
well as to the Municipal Finance
Commission (MFC), which will con-
duct a probe.
Officials from the U.S. Postal
Service visited City Hall on Tuesday
and also announced that they are
making an investigation to "deter-
mine if the mail service was used im-
properly," Murray said.
HE ADDED he was "completely
surprised" by the Postal Service
visit. "I asked them what evidence
they had that the mail was used im-
properly, and they said they had
none, but they were going to look into
it anyway," Murray said.
It was also reported yesterday that
the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission (SEC) has begun an investi-
gation into Merrill Lynch's conduct
in the affair. The SEC will apparently
decide whether Carroll was properly
supervised while he was handling the
City's account:
The SEC will also decide if the $180
million arbitrage account was an ap-
propriate investment for the city to
make. Under state law, no commun-
ity can borrow in order to invest.
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preventing
(Continued from Panel1)
Harvard adopted the report's
recommendations.
Fleming said he"supported the
guidelines as have other University of-
ficials.
"THE GUIDELINES seemed
reasonable,"LSA Dean Billy Frye said.
"I have no objections to them."
"I'm against anybody engaging in
;something like (the CIA, research)
when the University is not aware of it,"
School of Education Dean Wilbur Cohen
added.
Bruce Friedman, chairman of the
.SACUA Civil Liberties Board which
would play a role in adopting spy-
curbing guidelines here, said yesterday
that he had not yet been approached to
consider the Washington organization's
appeal but that "(the board) would be
;happy to review it."
MICHIGAN Student Assembly
President Scott Kellman also said he
would support some guidelines, but ad-
ded that he didn't think the issue would
see its w" on to the assembly's agen-
'da.

campus CIA activities
"I personally don't have the time or for Research Charles) Overberger,
the inclination to the address the and he never got a letter. We've talked
issue," Kellman said, about it before.
It was common for members of the "It's conceivable we still will receive
University community to question the something from the CIA," the
need to prevent secret CIA activities, if President added.
none had actually been reported here. BUT HAL KANDEE, spokesman for
"AS I UNDERSTAND it," SACUA the Campaign, says that officials
"adninistrative associate Janice Downs should not delude themselves by poin-
id,h administrativeass anie D se ting out that they have not heard from
said, "the administration did some the CIA. The agency is not anxious
checking around, and they didn't think to reveal their past activities, and must
/~we had that problem on campus." be forced to legally, Kandee said.
SACUA Chairman Fritz Lehmann "gapiy,
also expressed doubt that the CIA had . "Even though a president might say
ever operated at the University. "If in good faith that he is aware of no CIA
that weren't the case, I'm sure there activities, it still might be going on."
would be some real concern," he said. "Many university people say that if
According to Fleming, the intelligen- there is no evidence, there is no issue,"
ce agency has been notifying those Kandee noted. "We encourage them to
universities where it conducted secret use the Freedom of Information Act
activities, as the result of a Freedom of anyway. The notifications are a day-by-
Information suit. day thing.
"OTHER (university) presidents
have simply gotten a letter from the
CIA" telling them that secret activities n*.*.*.......*..
had taken place, Fleming said. .,...*. ....
"We've never had such a letter. I've
checked for a letter with (Vice-Presidnt .

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