Elkland Township Okays
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CASS CITY CHRONICLE VOLUME 68, NUMBER 50 CASS CITY, MICHIGAN-THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1975 Twenty Cents SIXTEEN PAGES Annual meetings Saturday Elkland township okays A new general fund budget, NOVESTA TOWNSHIP ELLINGTON TOWNSHIP ELMWOOD TOWNSHIP held the same date as the rebuilding one mile of Koepf- annual school election June 9. gen Road and the future of the Novesta township electors Ellington township voters Roads and improvements Voters will be asked to Demming vault at the town- approved a $37,193 budget for approved a new general fund on the fire hall took up much approve three mills for three ship cemetery comprised the the 1975-76 year. budget totaling $43,492.67 for of the Elmwood township years, with funds designated bulk of this year's Elkland Voters also approved recon- the coming year, with $1,903 meeting, according to Super- specifically for road main- township annual meeting held structing one mile of Phillips in the cemetery fund. visor Roy Messer. tenance, according to Clerk Saturday at the township hall. Road, north of Deckerville The board allocated $21,910 Township voters will be Donald Reid. Eight electors present ap- Road. The entire project is for road work in the coming asked to approve a one-mill Twelve persons attended proved a general fund budget expected to cost $20,000, of year, including gravel for 4'/2 levy for road improvement. the meeting. totaling $78,065. This repre- which the county will pay miles of roads, according to The date for the election and sents a 19 per cent increase half, according to Supervisor Clerk Mrs. Hazel Wilson. which roads are to be im- Grant township electors over last year's actual reve- Gail Parrott. He said,con- Proposed zoning was dis- proved have not yet been approved a general fund nues of $65,707, and a 34 per struction and grade are ex- cussed for the township. A decided, Messer said. budget of $15,900. , cent increase in expenditures pected to be completed this public meeting was set for Improvements to the over last year's actual year. April 22, beginning at 7:30 township fire hall came under $58,033. MEETINGS POSTPONED The township also voted to p.m., at the town hall. lengthy discussion, Messer Much of the additional return a strip of land at the Ten persons attended the said. No final action was Two township meetings, expenditures will come in the north end of McArthur Road meeting. taken. form of new road construction north of Severance Road to both in Sanilac county, were Nine persons attended the postponed due to snow- on South Koepfgen Road in current landowners Mr. and Voters approved a new meeting. the first mile south of M-81. Mrs. Theodore Doyen. Par- budget calling for income of clogged roads from last Supervisor Edwin Karr ex- rott explained the strip had $43,480 and expenditures of week's blizzard. plained township road main- been purchased before the $35,590, leaving a cash bal- GRANT TOWNSHIP Greenleaf and Evergreen tenance and construction turn of the century for a road ance of $7,800. township meetings were re- alone will take up $48,205 of right-of-way, but was never The board will hold regular Grant township voters will scheduled for this coming the township's budget. used. meetings the first Monday of decide the fate of a special Saturday. Both will begin at Karr said the road project Four persons attended the every other month, at the millage request for road 1:00 p.m. at the respective will take three years to meeting. township hall. maintenance. The vote will be town halls. complete. In 1975, the road ANN THANE (center), looks as if she's about to become the will be brought up to grade victim of two snowballs tossed by brothers Greg (left) and Darryl. and graveled, with final sur- The snow may have brought misery for grown-ups, but for the facing expected over the following two years. kids, it was nothing but pleasure. These happy youngsters are the He sajd $23,000 will be spent children of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Thane of 4387 Koepfgen Rd. on this year's construction on This is spring? Area reels Koepfgen Road, with the remaining $25,205 going for repair on the remaining township roads. Karr said over three years, the township will spend close under wintery 17-inch snowfall to $40,000 on the project. He said in addition, Detroit Edi- son and General Telephone will have to move transmis- Heavy snow, piled into to and from work. Snowmo- tion to a standstill Thursday, stopped Thursday afternoon, sion lines, bringing the total mountainous drifts by high biles were the only vehicles along with many businesses but battled high winds that project cost, including the winds, brought activity in operating. in and around Cass City. continued to cause consider- township's share, to $100,000. Cass City and the tri-county Drifts as high as four feet While no power loss was able drifting. It was Friday He said so far, 16 property area to a standstill Thursday, blocked both major and side reported in Cass City, Detroit afternoon before crews had owners living along the road . forcing wholesale cancella- streets in Cass City, making Edison was plagued by re- removed the worst of the have contributed $700 toward '.:;tion of activities and leaving even walking a torture, in the ports of power failures in the snow from Main Street. the project. ' •• «f;$notorists stranded across the face of winds clocked as high Millington area, At one point, Karr said some of the 'slate.' ' " '•'••'••• as 40 miles an hour. about 5,000 Thumb area cus- VOLUNTEERS Koepfgen Road construction The storm forced Tuscola At8:00a.m,, the only track tomers were without elec- costs may be cut if the County Sheriff's patrol cars on South Seeger Street was tricity. Randy Howard. Hills and township is able to buy a off the roads in the early one snowmobile trail. All Most area schools were not Dales General Hospital ad- gravel pit nearby. The hours of Thursday morning, other streets were plugged. in session last week, and so ministrator, reported voiun- supervisor said it would re- along with County Road M-81 was reported blocked were not affected by the teers, both with snowmobiles duce the cost of gravel from Commission crews who gave between Cass City and Caro, storm. Students returned to and in the hospital itself, 50 cents a yard to 10 cents a up the battle to keep state as well as M-53 south of Bad their classes Monday follow- helped supplement the skele- yard. trunk lines open, until the Axe and in Sanilac county. ing their extended Easter ton staff on duty at the Karr said the township's winds died down. Snow began falling in Cass vacation. facility. pattern of growth is toward Officially 17 inches of snow City Wednesday morning, By Thursday afternoon, Howard said persons living Koepfgen Road, citing the fell in the county, bringing April 2, but stopped in the traffic began to move slowly near the hospital volunteered difficulty in getting septic about scenes reminiscent of early afternoon hours, only to on some Cass City streets, but for kitchen duties to insure tank permits for new homes the St. Patrick's Day blizzard return around 4:00 p.m. By persons living on side streets patients would be fed on time. north of Cass City, due to hard of 1973. midnight, traffic had slowed had to depend on either Others used their snow ma- clay soil. Officials at Hills and Dales to a crawl and stopped shortly footpower or snowmobiles to chines to transport staff and Karr acknowledged that the General Hospital put out a afterward. get them around town. doctors to the facility. project has caused some plea for area snowmobile The storm brought opera- Village work crews began "We just can't thank these controversy among residents operators to assist them in tions at Walbro Corporation the gigantic task of clearing people enough," Howard IT TOOK heavy equipment and long, long hours of work on the of Koepfgen Road, since some transporting doctors and staff and General Cable Corpora- streets soon after the snow Concluded on page 16. part of village crews to make streets passable again following last trees will have to be removed. He said this is because the week's snow storm. present road does not follow the true section line, which all new roads must follow today. , Work is expected to begin Gagetown man injured on the project this summer, Erlas win race with stork, weather Other funds are expected to run about the same as last year, with the exception of a The late-winter snowstorm pital. According to Mrs. Erla, labor. were all reported doing fine nearly $2,000 increase in the that blasted its way through it took a half hour for the • This is the first child for the by hospital authorities. cemetery fund, estimated at Cass City last week won't caravan to wend its way from Erlas, who are more than Jennifer Lynn and her in snowmobile mishap $17,500, compared with soon be forgotten by Mr, and Third Street to the hospital, grateful Jennifer waited for mother weren't the only $15,777 last year. Mrs. Clark Erla of 6781 Third with several attempts needed the comforts of the hospital. members of the family in the Karr said total township St. They'll remember it every at the hill before they finally "Next time, I think we're hospital the same week.