Demo Derby, Rodeo, Stock Sale, Udiesdav, Queen Contest Coming
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BHrafUff1''1'WW ;> * * s IS«v•;^>^*tP * * i4 f> <S?"! >. V », • >* ** ' <t>•' * • *"''' Mife$ nM^W tS^1 i ir i r: x QUOTE c "Show me a man who is a 25 {good loser and I'll show you per vofty • .\,U man who is playing golf ; with his boss." . .^Nebraska Smoke-eater timu •!??l |WEHUNDRED-FIFTEENTH YEAR—No. 13 CHELSEA, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1985 18 Poqes This Week nni l 1 hrougn Demo Derby, Rodeo, Stock Sale, UdiesDav, Queen Contest Coming Chelsea's 1985 Community Fair The B bar J Rodeo will include serve as the mistress of got off to its usual amusing good the usual events, such as bronc ceremonies for the pageant. start with yesterday's successful riding, steer wrestling and calf Out-of-town judges have also Children's Day Parade. As of roping and a professional rodeo been named, They are Pat Monday afternoon it was uncer clown, Warren Follins of Carlson of Coldwater, Charles tain whether the kids would be Wapakoneta, O. Bliss of Saline, and Patricia .better off having a raft race in The first of the tractor pulls, Yohey of Ann Arbor. stead. Rain most of the week-end, the antique tractor pull, takes Howard, director of the and well into Monday, made the place at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Chelsea Charms, is a veteran of fairgrounds somewhat swampy. Friday features two major fair the tyeauty-talent pageant There was standing water all attractions, Ladies Day, with business. She has been a winner over town. registration beginning at 8 a.m., in 89 such contests. Some of her The first round of the and the Fair Queen Pageant titles include; Miss teen, 1961; Cavalcade of Thrills Demolition beginning at 7 p.m.. Miss Dixie, 1962; runnerrup to Derby also got off to a slightly Miss USA for Miss World, 1962; mucky start, both for the regular Ladies Day speakers include Runner-up to Miss Majorette of event and the special Powder Miss Michigan of 1984, Barbara America, 1959; and National Puff heat. Crandall, who is a talented ven Strutting Champion, 1959. She Tonight's demolition derby will triloquist; Chelsea physician was also Tennessee state Twirl feature the first ever pickup Steven Yarows, who will speak on ing and Strutting Champion for staying healthy; and Phyllis seven years. truck event. Enough trucks were Brokaw, a freelance home entered in the" last week for the economist, who will speak about Howard graduated from high INJURIES MINOR: Because they were wearing harness Friday evening. A, passenger in the motor home was also slightly event to goon. school cum laude and went on to restraints, the occupants of what was a 1985 Chevrolet Corvette hurt. In the road are (left) sheriff's deputy Joe Yekulis and Chelsea cooking beef in a microwave The event will feature half-ton, oven, The HOmemaker of the attend the University of (foreground) escaped with minor injuries in a collision with a large fireman Dan Ellenwood. two-wheel drive pickup trucks, Mississippi and Northwestern motor home at the intersection of Stofer Rd. and Island Lake Rd. last Year winner will also be an the basic standard pickup and nounced. University, where she graduated will begin at 7:30 p.m. cum laude with a degree in Tonight's derby action will also Ladies Day participants will dramatic arts. She later earned a have the crowd-pleasing farm also be eligible to win any of 150 master's degree in dramatic arts combine heat. door prizes donated by local mer and speech from UCLA, Three Only Slightly Injured Tomorrow's fair activities in chants, but women have to be present to win. Professionally, Howard has clude the Livestock Auction at 7 been a school teacher, and an ac p.m. and the B bar J Rodeo at 8 Nine local girls will compete tress in television and film. As a p.m. for the right to call herself the 1985 Chelsea Fair Queen. They singer and dancer she has per m-: The auction will be conducted formed both on stage and in night In Spectacular Crash Friday are Shanda Friday, Julie Stacey, l lA ,aU kW$& wmm hws-'- Two persons, in a Chevrolet harnesses, sheriff's deputy Joe Stofer about 5:50 p.m. and came Stackpoole, 59, of New Boston, all financial transactions. Fat W^| in#fSnSif ' associated with the Branch coun h Corvette that was ^shattered in a Yekulis said. They were restrain into the curve at Island Lake Rd. extensively damaging the left Grifka, Susan Oyerdorf and ; lambs, hogs and steers will be ty Junior Miss program for eight collision with a large motdrljome ed in i .the ear <• W$ Reaped, w(ithto o fast. The road bends there at front. auctioned off to the highest' bid Vanessa May. years, including serving as its last Friday evening on the curve cuts and bruises. a near 90-degree angle, a Both vehicles came to a stop der. Rita Wilson-Howard will again (Continued on page seven) at Stofer and Island Lake Rds. "There is no doubt in my mind nasty hazard even for drivers without overturning. came out of it with minor in that wearing restraints saved who are familiar with it. The "The car went underneath the juries. their lives," Yekulis said. curve is posted for 25 miles per motor home," Yekulis said, "and The 1985 Corvette (see photo) "Otherwise, we would have had hour, and the safe speed is slower then came back out with its top was reduced to something that two more traffic fatalities to than that. and hood demolished." 1 Kozminskis Will Appeal looked like a go-cart. Hood and , record." Ulberg lost control 'of the car, Ulberg and his passenger, Frank top were torn off by the impact. Yekulis said the Corvette, Yekulis said, and veered into the D. Tennent, 59, of Ann Arbor, Both the driver and the driven by Michael J. Ulberg, 21, left lane, hitting an oncoming were taken to Chelsea Communi passenger were wearing shoulder of Ann Arbor, was southbound on motor home driven by Robert D. ty Hospital by Huron Valley Am bulance, where they were treated To Supreme Court and released. Stackpple was unhurt. His wife, Brenda, was treated at Chelsea Community Hospital for minor head injuries and released. In Slavery Convictions Ulberg was charged with reckless driving for rounding the Ike Kozminski said Monday based on insufficient evidence barely escaped death during the curve too fast. that he intends to carry his case and that Judge Joiner erred in his holocaust that claimed the lives The Chelsea fire department to the U. S. Supreme Court in an charge to the jury and in admit of millions of European Jews dur was called to the scene to wash effort to overturn conviction on ting heresay testimony into the ing the reign of terror under dic away a small gasoline spill. charges of holding two farm trial. tator Adolph Hitler in Nazi Ger laborers in involuntary servitude By a 2-1 vote, the three-judge many. (slavery). Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in "I believe that justice will Fund Started Kozminski, his wife Margrethe, Cincinnati upheld the convic eventually prevail," Kozminski and their son, John, were declar tions, declaring that the evidence said. "We did nothing wrong. The ed guilty in February, 1984, introduced at the trial was suffi evidence presented in court was To Help Fire following a two-week jury trial cient to support the jury's' ver almost all from persons who conducted by Judge Charles W. dict. came onto our property without Survivors Joiner in Ann Arbor's U. S. "We will appeal further be permission and without war District courtroom. cause we believe in the United rants, including police officers. Chelsea VFW Post and Aux The Kozminskis appealed the States system of justice," said "We have been persecuted in iliary is collecting money for verdict on grounds that it was Ike Kozminski, a Polish Jew who (Continued on page six) . the 19 survivors of the Sylvan Hotel fire. Canisters have been placed at local area businesses and will re main there for two weeks. Donations may also be mailed to the VFW Post 4076,105 N. Main St., or dropped off at the hall. All donations should be marked, "fire victims." The VFW pro mises that all money will be ac counted for. BARNEY BEYER was a resident of the Sylvan residents, saw his home, and many memories "Put yourselves in their burned Hotel for 17 years and served as its manager for 13 along with It, destroyed In last week's tragic fire. shoes," says the VFW. "Their of those years. Beyer, like many of the hotel's 2i His life will never be quite the same. many personal and cherished possessions were lost by fire, smoke and water. Some can never be replaced. Being homeless at the present, their Sylvan Hotel Was Home for personal needs are many and we must help. All community organizations and individuals are Many Residents Over Years urged to do their best." For further information call -The Sylvan Hotel may not have everything they owned but their the entire hotel had renter's in 475-7015. The chairman of the pro had the most elegant of reputa lives. surance. ject is Gary Erskine. tions before it was gutted by fire Campbell and Flint had lived Most of the other tenants have last week. Drunks and transients there nearly eight years. Jim found at least temporary hous were said to have made up many Kosinski, a 10-year resident, lost ing, some due to the work of the School Lunch 6f the clientele.