entertainmeilt re in St Johns • ••* • • • • • • • • • • Auto, Farm, Home and Sports Show at Smith Hall through Saturday The St. Johns Chamber of Commerce's biggest There will be several special features for Separate stories pertaining to the east of Smith Hall. promotion of 1967, the first annual Auto, Farm, visitors to the Auto, Farm, Home and Sports Exhibitors began setting up their displays Home and Sports Show, opens at Smith Hall in Show. The "Amazing Contains," a family magic •Amazing Conklins* magic act, the style revue and a resume of what Wednesday morning. Not only will they be show­ the city park this evening (Thursday). act, will appear four times—once each evening ing their products to visitors, but many will at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday afternoon at 3:30 exhibitors will„ have to show can be Over 40' retail and service firms and other found on special Auto, Farm, Home be selling, giving the visitors a chance to take organizations in the St. Johns and Clinton County p.m. At 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon Mrs Shirley advantage of special Auto, Farm, Home and Sports Mygrants, Minnesota Woolen exhibitor at the and Sports Show pages of this week's area will have exhibits at the show, giving visitors Clinton County News. The special pages Show prices in effect those three days. a look at the products and services they are show, will stage a fashion revue inside Smith Access to the show will be through the St. Hall. are9-B, 10-B, 11-B, 12-B,13-B Also offering this year. included there are maps showing the Johns City Park or via Sickles Street. Parking The show will be open from 6 until iq:30 The magic show and style revue are available location of exhibitors on the grounds for visitors to the show will be in the football p.m. tonight and from 1 to 10:30 p.m. on both free to persons who attend the Auto, Farm, Home and in Smith Hall. Many of the ex­ field parking lot just east of the fairgrounds Friday and Saturday. Many of the exhibitors and Sports Show. There will be an admission hibitors are advertising in the special and only a few steps from the quonset build­ will give away prizes in their booths, and the charge to the show grounds. section to tell you more about their ing, the outside displays and Smith Hall. Chamber will offer door prizes each night, in­ The show grounds themselves take up much products and services. The committee which has headed up arrange­ cluding a Hoover vacuum cleaner Thursday night, of the county 4-H fair grounds surrounding Smith ments for the Auto, Farm, Home and Sports a power lawn mower Friday night and a portable Hall. Twentv-eight exhibits will be set up inside the hall. St. Johns auto dealers will display Show consists of Robert Ditmer, Hugh Wallace dishwasher Saturday night. Smith Hall, but there will be many others outside their cars' and trucks in the quonset building and Betty Jane Minsky. THE AMAZING CONKLINS ••• ••• First Nighters plan 'Gay 90's Revue' Friday, Saturday There'll be a distinctive "gay ceremony was performed. 90's* atmosphere in St. Johns this Friday and Saturday when SHE DARES NOT tell the truth the First Nighters will present about her marriage to the ras­ two one-act melodramas at the cally Dashaway, for If she does Rodney B. Wilson High School so she will lose her position at the auditorium. Moneycracker mansion. How can 111th Year, No. 50 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN-THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1967 2 SECTIONS - 34 PAGES 15 Cents There will be other "gay 90's* Hyacinth prevent the foul Dash­ entertainment between the two away scoundrel from marrying plays. Mrs Moneycracker's innocent The "Gay 90's Revue"willfea- daughter, Alvina (played by Jo­ tufe the plays "Egad, What A anna Maniez), and getting his Effective in 1969 Cad (or- Virtue Triumphs Over hands on the immense Money­ Villainy)" and "He Done Her cracker fortune? The finish of Wrong (or Wedded But No Wife." the play offers a surprize and Both plays are set in the time of lots of laughter for the audience. the 1890s. Others in the play are: Bar­ "Egad, What A Cadi "is design­ bara Rann as Octavia Money­ ed to provide an exciting half- cracker, a cold and snobbish so­ hour of laughs, howls and ap­ ciety matron and Sam Hopko as County to have 11 -man board! plause. For a time it looks as Linette Darwood, who has a will though Constant Hope, the beauti­ of her own. Clinton County supervisors tion of the two districts pertain­ trict 3 will have a population of rest of DeWitt Township east of District 3: St. Johns south of District 7: Dallas and West­ ful young heroine played by Mar­ Between the two plays will be have reluctantly approved an 11- ing to St. Johns and Bingham 3,290 on the I960 census, and Turner Road and south of Clark. the railroad and west of Clinton phalia Townships, population ilyn Motz who is haunted by a entertainment including a 16- man county board to take effect Township. St. Johns will be divid­ District 4 will have a population It will have a population of 3,- Avenue plus all of Bingham 3,505. tragic past, is about to fall into member chorus line fromOwos- Jan. 1, 1969, in compliance with ed along the lines of Its former of 3,695. 781. Township, population 3,290. District 8: Eagle and Water- the clutches of that black-hearted so; Teresa Sisson, soprano; John the state law that expounds the three precincts. The part of the DeWltt Township will also be The newly adopted districts District 4; St. Johns east of town townships, population 3,281. cad, Bertram Oleander (played by Anderson, baritone; The Fowler so-called one-man, one-vote city lying south of the Grand divided under the 11-man board. and their populations (according Clinton Avenue and all oftheclty District 9: The City of DeWitt Jerry Lewis). Four, barbershoppers; Gale theory. Trunk Railroad tracks and west District 9 will include the City to the 1960 census) are: north of the railroad, population plus all of DeWltt Township north, Foersh, the "hottest banjo"; The resolution approving the of Clinton Avenue will be linked of DeWitt and that part of DeWltt 3,695. of Clark and west of Turner, BUT, BY A STRANGE coinci­ and Treva Hill at the ragtime 11-man unit passed by a 15-7 with Bingham Township for the Township north of Clark Road DISTRICT 1: DUPLAIN and District 5: Ovid Township, population 3,868. dence, Manly Rash (Tom Smith), piano. vote Monday afternoon. formation of supervisor District and all of that west of Turner Greenbush Townships, popula - population 2,795 (the smallest District 10: Precincts 2 and 5 , the noble hero with the manly All the acts will present sounds The plan is the same one—with 3. Road. It will have a population tlon 3,411. population of any district). of DeWitt Township, lying south, bosom, arrives in the nick of of the Gay Nineties. Terry Fos­ refinements—that was presented of 3,868—the largest population District 2: Essex, Lebansnand District 6: Victor, Olive and of Clark and east of Turner, pop- ' time to save Constant from afate ter will direct the "Gay Nineties to the board March 6. THE REMAINING PART Of St. of any district. j Bengal Townships, population Riley Townships, population ulatlon 3,781 worse than death. JSee_GAY 90's, Page 3-A.) One refinement is the forma­ Johns will forni District 4, Dis­ District 10 will Include the 2,975. ^ 3,636. (See 11-MAN, Page 2-A) Other parts in the play are: Ardis Crawford as Milly Smith, who arrives unexpectedly; John Martin as Augustus Greystone, a successful businessman; Loi DeGroot as Fowler, the house­ keeper; and Janice Pyle as Ur­ Light turnout expected sula Greystone, the socially am­ bitious wife. The second play of the night, "He Done Her Wrong," has sim­ ilar melodrama heroics. This for election Tuesday story Is about the pure but per­ secuted heroine, Hyacinth Haven, Only a light turnout of voters two proposals has been at a and to see the excitement add to the situation, provides for a played by Melanie Green, who is anticipated next Tuesday, minimum, with the fire hall issue to the safety worries. Volunteer maximum levy or 20 mills, un­ falls into the clutches of a hea­ April 11, for a special election drawing practically all of what firemen, to whom the safety less the city charter does not vily-moustached monster, Fleet­ in St. Johns on two propositions. there has been. factor is of direct concern are establish a definite celling, in wood Dashaway (played by Wayne Proposition No. 1 is a pro­ The city commission is urging also urging a yes vote for a which case the maximum would Hicks). She's rescued in the nick posal to amend the city charter a "yes" -vote on both proposals, new hall. be 10 mills. of time, of course, by the manly- by deleting 62 sections of the pointing to the safety factor as No site has been even consid­ City commissions since 1933 bosomed hero, Fitzjohn Oliphant present document under the one of the prime reasons for ered by the city commission have ,apparently regarded the Glenn Hill), who falls in love with headings of general taxation and the need of a new fire-police 20 mills as the limit, and she Hyacinth at sight, notknowing that special assessment and combin­ hall.