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Council VOLUME 55, NUMBER 50 CASS CITY, MICHIGANTHURSDAY, MA.ECH 29, 1962 SIXTEEN PAGES A petition by residents on the street has become a Garf ield Street east of South busy one. and the spring Seeger to Ale Street for ac- break-up has rutted the tion on their rutted roads road. provided a baptism of fire But before any surfacing for the 1962 village council work can be done, the street in its first regular session needs draining. This year Tuesday night at the Muni- some $5,000 has been bud- It will cost more to get a Deputy Sheriff Frank Kros- cipal Building. geted for storm sewer work. building permit in Cass City wek, Caro, was appointed Tus- The request sparked a re- The majority of this is sche- now, but the property owner is cola county civil defense director view of the street program duled, for the alleys running expected to get more for his Monday by county supervisors for the year and the new adjacent to Main Street . .a money. That was the conclusion for the second time within a council started fighting the project that has been on the of village trustees after they year. same problems that have council agenda for several approved a stiff hike in rates faced every council . lack years. Tuesday night at the Municipal The appointment came at a of enough funds to do every- Because trustees felt that Building. special supervisor's meeting called to check valuations and to thing desired in the village. the Garfield problem was Formerly building permits process tax forms. Money for street work has very serious, an informal cost $1.00 for buildings costing Kroswek, a 'deputy for the been allotted. Top priority agreement ^ was made to see up to $4,500' and $3,00 for costs past seven years, is slated to re- for blacktopping had been if some of the drainage over this amount. The new regu- sign his post and will officially given to Hill Street running work could be started this lations .vary. •> take ever the civil defense di- from Church Street to Hills summer and the work com- The .schedule: residential or rectorship on Monday, April 2. and Dales .General Hospital pleted in subsequent years commercial remodeling, $3.00 He gave up a previous civil de- and to South .Seeger. The as part of the regular street up to $1,000 value and 50 cents fense appointment because pres- blacktop on Seeger would improvement work. per $1,000 over this amount; ent civil defense policy states be on the edges of the road The matter was referred residential new building, $10.00 that neither the sheriff nor a when anticipated curb and to the streets and sidewalks for up to $15,000 and 50 cents deputy may be a director. gutter is installed this year. committee (Bigelow, Guinth- per $1,000 over the minimum - The post, previously a part- Hill Street ha.s been drained er, Ware) for*4nore specific figure, and commercial new time situation, was recently made and graded and is ready for action. " buildings, a flat fee of $20. a full' time post at a super- the surfacing. Representing the home It was pointed out in the visors' meeting. That Garfield is in need of owners in the affected area meeting that the increased fees The appointment, based on a repair was agreed by the was Charles Holm, who told will be used to finance a more recommendation by the county council. Since the advent of the council how badly in rigid inspection of construction civil ' defense committee, was the factories on Garfield, need of repair the road is. to see that it conforms with made by Chairman Milton Be- existing codes . both for the dore and approved by the attend- protection of the property owner IT'S SUGAR BUSH TIME.-From the 1,500 gallon finery. Inside the refinery, the sap flows into a series of ing supervisors. and the village. glass-lined tank to the right of C. R. Hunt's "Sugar Bush" tanks over a constant fire. It's boiled to 219 degrees, refinery to the half-gallon container, the trip is a fiery strained and put into the half-gallon tins. The "Sugar Bush," owned by Hunt, a Cass City construction company Music Students one. Crystal clear sap is gathered from .the trees in the back- 5 owner, is located at his farm, four miles west of Cass City. Take Top Rating's ground, placed in the tank and then is drained into the re- (Chronicle photo) Crushed •• in Local At State Festival Twp Cass City band members Syrup, Sunshine Costs and a brass sextet won Division A Greenleaf township woman, I ratings at the .State Solo and Mrs. Kenneth (Laura) MeRae, A tentative agreement between township knows what to expect. Ensemble Festival Saturday, suffered a dislocated finger, the village and Elkland township The rules will be published next Inarch .24, Mt. Pleasant. Tuesday night the council s Sweet fractures and lacerations Thurs- raised building permit fees to over. participation in the cost of week over the joint signature's M day,- March-22, when a press she operating the village dump' was Tom Jones, senior, and Bill finance more rigid inspection of ."In spring, a young man's the stove; inch thick. the village and the township; it B.obbs, junior, both won Division : was operating ' at Walbro Cor- reached Tuesday night in the was decided. • •'. buildings in the village. As Trus- fancy lightly turns . " As the sap boils, and the water As the sap' cooks,, it naturally poration caught her right, hand. I ratings plus Proficiency III tee Lee Rabideau pointed out, evaporates, it flows from-tank to becomes • -sweeter. When it is regular monthly council meeting Other Business . In spring .at the C. R. Hunt According to attending physi- at the Cass City Municipal and 'II ratings, respectively. The the inspection is for the protec- "Sugar Bush", everyone's fancy tank. The temperature. between about "halfway "done", it tastes as proficiency ratings represent the cian H. T. Donahue, M. D., Building. The planning commission ap- tion of both the property owner lightly turns to changing, 6,000- tanks, as the, sap .thickens, varies sweet as .the ' average imitation proved the use of a "new building third and second levels above a Mrsi McRae's middle finger was Formal agreement will wait and the village. gallons of crystal clear maple as much as five .degrees, despite maple syrup' sold'in stores. for Ray Fleettqr for storage.arid first division rating. dislocated at the second joint. until A. J. Stevens draws up'the It's a well conceived plan and sap into 150 gallons of sweet, the fact that the partitioning " Before it is really syrup, how- The 'finger 'was ' also lacerated recommended that a building The brass sextet won a Divi- certainly one that has been amber maple syrup. sections are only a quarter of an ever, the temperature of "the sap contract to be signed. by b,oth permit be granted. However, severely and tendons were sev- the village and the township. sion I rating and was praised for needed in Cass City for many a must be 219 degrees. The state ered. Trustee Rabideau .reported that a an excellent performance. Sextet From sap to syrup involves moon. hours and days of collecting, also requires • that a gallon of Her index finger was lacerated What the council proposes^ is dispute' about the lot-line,'had members are: Betty Jean Spauld- However, the job is only half maple syrup must weigh-- - 11 and fractured and her ring fin- that the township pay half the been raised by a next door neigh- iftg,, Michael Pomeroy, Robert cooking and packaging. done. It's now up, to the council pounds before it can be sold. ger was alsp lacerated. cost of operating the village bor, Jim Seale. Jones, James Fritz, Bill Dobbs Hunt's . "Sugar Bush" is lo- dump and that the village run the to see that the new type inspec- cated near the west end of his Still is ysn't-j finished. The sy- Dr. Donahue stated that Mrs. The council will hold up the and Tom Jones. tion is inaugurated and builders facility. Supervisor Ed Golding 160-acre farm, four miles west nij) contains a substance called McRae may lose the use of her building permit until the .dispute made to comply with regulations. Six area township's will holcl and* Trustee 3 alia Marshall at- 44 of Cass City. By way of defini- niter or "sugar sand", a brown middle' finger if the tendons do is settled. • " ' Too often in Cass City intentions annual township meetings Satur- residue. Unless the sugar sand not heal properly. tended the meeting and after tion, it includes 700 maple trees learning how the dump is ope- The planning commission' also have 'been' good . but the subse- and the building used to refine day, March .31, at 1:3.0 p.m., at is strained off, it has the same He anticipated that she would recommended that a request by quent action not up to expecta- respective 'township halls, ac- affect on the stomach as eating -,__ be released from' Hills and Dales rated said that they felt that the. sap. the agreement would be all right Harris-Hampshire Insurance Co. tions. cording to reports from super- green plums. ',. ..' , ; General Hospital sometime near for a new neon sign at the home- The first refining shed was an with the township board. visors. The strainer is a flannel sack." the end of this week.