Fitchburg Couple Dies in Mysterious House Fire by Charlo:Te Camp a Ruralfitchburgcouple, Trap Ped in Their Burning Home, W•!Re Me:Eting
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D:tndc.ry S;:r~'incrort, l!ich. ' You'll Need Your' Coot . '.~ ' ( Coolor Thu;srlay; warmor Sarurtlay and Sunday; sl1owors lilco/y ·Sunday or Monday. , · , Volume 105, No. 41 28 Pages Plus Special 16-page Frandor Supplement Wednesday 1 October 71 1964 1~ per copy Fitchburg Couple Dies In Mysterious House Fire By Charlo:te camp A ruralFitchburgcouple, trap ped In their burning home, W•!re Me:eting. burned to death Saturday night as fire of undetermined origin completely destroyed the 2-story frame dwelling. Is.... Set Dead are Edgar Saierlte, 46, and his wife, Mary Lou, 43. The Stockbridge fire depart ment responded to the alarm On'Pool which was turned In at approxi The .Mason board of education mately 10:50 p.m. By the time has set ·up a special meeting for they arrlvad, the house was com next Wednesday, October 14 at pletely destroyed, '1:30 p.m. In the office of Super Since thl! couple's 2 cars and intendent M. Chandler Nauts to pickup truck were parked In the develop swimming pool plans, A yard, it was presumed the couple •i ••. representative group from the was inside, At 3 a.m., both bodies . ' pool comm!ttee which steered the along with that of their dog, were campaign· for a pool, wlll be In- found. ,, ' ' ,:·:.;.~ vited. , Coroner Jack Holmes of The board, meeting Monday Lansing pronounced the pair dead '. :·'''''j 'night also discussed the possi at the scene and the bodies were ·.,~t:~.i bility o' offering adult education.· removed to the Caskey funeral .. It Is hoped to have the plan home In Stockbridge. ready for presentation at the Oc In addition to all the equipment tober 14 meeting, The course to from the Stockbridge fire depart be offered Is expected to Include ment, the Henrietta department several courses, especially one · dispatched a tanker truck to the 1n art this fall, Interest In art Is scene. TheStockbrldge assistant mounting In Mason Nauts said. fire chief, Howard Ashmore, said The board also Is looking ln~o the matter of educational tele- 14,000 gallons of water were . vision In Mason schools and ap pumped into the smouldering ruins before firemen could begin pointed Robert Leonard to serve their grim search, on a committee to Investigate The state fire marshal's office educational television lnstruc- and the Ingham county sheriff's tiOil, ' . department are Investigating the In other: action the board: tragedy In an attempt to deter Decided to request from the mine the cause of the blaze. Masorl clty council an additional The dead couple had no children crossing guard at Elm and Barnes and other relatives are all from streets. There now are 3 crossing out of state, guards and the new man would Funeral l!i<l.',Ylces for the 2flre bring the force to 4. The city victims were 'Tuesday afternoon· . pays half.the salary ottheguards at the Caskey:~!uneral home In and the board of educattbn· the .Stockbrjdge,·,Burlal was In the 1 ,other half. •... Fitchburg ceme(ery. , HERE S· ERE a Fitchburg couple and their dog Appointed Robert Ware . as a Saferlte, 47, was a captain lost thei~',lives in an unexplained house fire early pilot employed by United Air ·. · mr.mber''of"tbe'high school ath Monday morning .• This exclusive pictL,Ire was take~ _ , letlc council, which Is the policy-. lines ·and based at Wlllow Run. milking group for athletic pro His wUe1 .was ,43 years old, by the News• special correspondent, Charlotte Camp. grams In all Mason public He is· survived by his parents, schools, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Safe rite of Eureka,· Kansas; 2 brothers, PROMISING LETTUCE PLANTS are selected for seed prodJ8tion by Deran Markarian, Michigan George of Eureka, and Robert o! ElDorado, K~l)sas, and a sister, New School Named State university horticulturist. The seed from these plants is either increased in the MSU winter Mrs. Ellen Cliurch of El Dorado. greenhouses or, more often, sent to Australia where seed can be propagated in time for growing in Farhat KO's M:s, Saferlte Is survived by her parents, Mr. and M:rs, Rob For Jim Vander Ven Michigan the following spring. Ingham will get direct benefit for the Stockbridge Lettuce Growers ert Bryan of Chicago; 2 sisters, are taking part in the project. Moonlite Ban Mrs. Edward Barnicle of New Mason's new elementary The board In a special ses York and M·rs, Raymond Balca school at Aurelius and Columbia sion last week Wednesday selec Moonlighting and salaries of reel of Chicago, and 2 brothers, roads wlll be known as the James ted the colors for the new Van asslstanl prosecutors drew some Robert Bryan of Evergreen, Illi H. Vander Yen Elementary build der Ven school. The outside brick heated discussion Tuesday at the ing, the board oi education an Stockbridge Grovvers nois, and Carl Bryan of Munster 1 wlll be a light tan and under county board meeting, Indiana. nounced at Its meeting Monday each window wlll be procelaln The discussion developed when night. panels oi turquoise and yellow. the salaries commlttee offered This Is the first time In Ma ~oin MSU in Australian a resolution forbidding outside County Votes son's history a school has been The walls In the Interior of practice of lawbya.sslstantpros named for a person and the the school will be or biege with ecutors, board's action Is an honor to accent panels of 4 different col Seed Experiments Prosecutor Leo Farhat told the James H. Vander Yen who re ors in different rooms. These board he agreed with the Idea Sewer Share tired last June as superintendent aqua blue, sky blue, coral and Many of Michigan's up-and these selected plants Into the 500, pounds of seed--enough to Today, about 1,000 acres oflet- but that salaries must be made Mason and the county came to oi schools_ after serving In the gold, coming lettuce plants will be greenhouse where they are allow plant 250 acres, tuce are grown In the Stock- more realistic. terms on another storm sewer office for 16 years. grown "clown under" this winter. , ed to mature and produce seed. The multiplied seed supply ar- bridge area, compared to about "II Is Increasingly dUflcult project Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Vander Yen now The board is getting prices This place "down under" Is, Markarian says that he can get rives In Michigan by air around,, 400 acres in 1960. This acreage to get experienced assistants Up for consideration at the reside in Portage, near Kalama for gasoline storage tank and of course, Australia. Growing 3 to 1,000 seeds from each of April l, Even with freight costs,:r!: figure Is expected to top the right now at the salaries being next council meeting wlll be the zoo. pump and for ins tall a lion lettuce there Is part of an ef-, the original heads of lettuce, the Australia-produced seed Is at ,, 2,000 mark within the next few offered," he said. "Forbidding assessment roll for the Cedar The Vander Yen school is ex of equipment to provide head bolt fort by the Stockbridge Vege. depending on the success of his least a dollar lower than any years. outside practice would make It street storm sewer addition, At pected to be completed by March heaters for new engines at the table Producers a I m e d at In transplantlngs, which can be produced In .the . And growers are becoming Impossible," Tuesday's supervisors meeting of 1965. Vander Ven school. creasing their chances of pro United States. ·' more and more conscious of what After the discussion a move to the city asked the permission of ducing top quality, high yield This seed is then either in table the resolution for further the board to place the county on ing crops. Each year, the Stockbridge It takes to make money with their creased In the MSU winter green growers over-order a year In new specialty crop. For example, study was passed by a 19-17 the assessment roll at a figure They simply take advantage houses or more often sent to advance and use less expensive more than 90 per cent of the vote, of $6,965. of Australla's"mlxed-up" grow Australia by October 1, for the boat freight to bring the seed orders for new lettuce varieties Under state law the county can Ing season, foundation stock increase, Foun. into this country, submitted this year have been not be assessed without Its per Australia has her summers dation seed is given a thorough The results of the Michigan- for those adapted to hot weather, Half-Hour Vacation mission. ' 4 while Michigan has winters, mak test the following growing season Australia lettuce program have Many growers paid a high price A special committee consist Ing It possible to grow and mul In farmers' fields and the MSU been most rewarding, Michigan for learning that lesson this year According to Mason public Ing of Supervisor Robert Ro!lln tiply promising 1 e t t u c e plants muck farm to determine which growers can save a year's time when a large share ofthelr crops schools superintendent 1 M. son, Supervisor Louis Neller and while growers in the Wolverine "head" selections were best, In getting selected lettuce var- literally lost their heads. and, Chandler Nauts, school wlll be Harold Slater met with Super State are shoveling snow, Best letles Into their f 1 e 1 d s, MSU In some cases, produced no.he.:~.~s dismissed at 3 p.m.