September 30, 1970
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County Football This week: business growth report — Section C Results Pages 3-6A Auction planned Oct. 17 %fH v >*sa wi g Volunteers seek donated items *.is \ - . (m or littl sale Chances for success of little Jaycee clubs of St. Johns* The 'ing businesses for contributions ing auction day* The next two le a gu e. benefit suction moved . project of paying off the lighting Of merchandise to be sold at th© Saturdays members of the I toward assurance this week as expenses', wasundertaken initially auction* Other request sare being involved organizations will be on St. Johns businessmen and pri by the Rotary Club and Kurt issued to homeowner sandpjpivata hand at Smith Hall from 9 a.m. Nht, 'A* vate citizens began donating Beoker was named chairman of , citizens to donate unused items to 3 p.m. to accept and catalogue items which will* hopefully* draw the project committee* Theother /which may be put on the1 block items contributed, " bidders from across the county. clubs volunteered their services . to raise'the little league lighting Becker encouraged everyone in Plans for the auction, slated and from this came the proposal fund ante. n St. Johns apd surrounding area to to be held Sat, Oct. 17 beginning for a county-wide auction, Clinton County &ews and'!1 select some Unwanted Item from at 10 a,m* at Smith Hall, were Schmitt, Electric,have been hojnes andbusinesses to increase completed during a recent meet AUCTIONEER At GALLOWAY selected as two pointewhlch con the list of auction selections. ing attended by representatives has agreed to contribute his time tributors may contact - to have "Everyone has at least one of four St. Johns organizations for the day of the auction as well items picked up* Area residents Item* Becker said, "whichcould and independent businessmen in as making necessary prepara* may call either of these busi > be given to the auction and sold terested In raising sufficient tions for cataloguing and sorting nesses, leavingname.andadd'res'e to someone else whomay be look funds to defray the cost of of auction items, and a fifth St, along with the type Item being ing for that exact thing." 1 lighting equipment installed re JohnB'drganizatiohi ThgSt. Johns donated ang crews from theBoys Lights at the little* league field Barry Dean of Dean's Hardware In St. Johns displays some of the cently at the little league field. Boys Club, has volunteered to Club will then be by the c&Uefr'a were installed recently by'volun- iiK Cost of the new addition is ap make pickups and collect all home to collect the Iteftis* ' teer crews fromZeeb Fertilizer' donations contributed by his firm to the little league lights auction drive proximately $7,000. donated items. and Schmitt Electric along with, to be held for the next three weeks, culminating in the Sale Opt, 17, Laying the groundwork for the According to Becker, members ANOTHER WAV ttr contribute help from members of the four benefit auction are members of of the various clubs involved In is to brtog -unwanted "items to organizations currently conduct Here he shows a propane torch kit and a 3/8-inch polishing and sanding the Lions, Rotary, Exchange and the project are currently soHcit- Smith HaU any Saturday, incjud* ing the auction project. drill kit. !TOmttft£&ggSSS8SS^^ Coletta's project business growth report .; The special business growth I report which is section C of this week's Clinton County News, thas been a summer project of *• Richard Coletta. > Dick, under the direction of 115th Year, No. 22 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN - Wednesday, September 30, 1970 15 CENTS Advertising Manager Mike Pre- vllle, handled all advertising and news copy in the section and assisted in production schedules leading to its appearance in this Two named to Airport Authority .issue. * Two Clinton County men were He is a graduate of Northwest named representatives on the ern University and worked for a' Coletta started working for the Trl-County Airport Authority by , V News, in the advertising depart period of time with the Federal the County Board of Commis Reserve System. ment, in June of this year. His sioners last Friday night. assignment was to compile a supplement paper on the pro Harold Wellman, president of Since coming to St. Johns as gress of Clinton County. Other RICHARD COLETTA Central National Bank was president of Central National The new teacher contracts in to pay dues to the state and members were given copies of Bank, he has been Ihvolved In DeWitt riarrowly, passed the rati;- national ediicajioh associations if. the old contract while Ritchie elected to serve a four year -term and Dick March, a charter'- a. number of-,area activities and *""**- ^.ficatlon'vote by thaboardofedu- they. did.TiofcWish^to, pointed out tfllfriew changes that* Is currently On the board of Cjinton County News duties included selling space in catlon Tuesday night (Sept, 22) According to the new plan, all would'go Into effect this year. pilot, was voted to a three year term. director's of the St. Johns Area signature ads and filling in due to, the inclusion of an agency teachers In the. district would Voting to approve the contract Development Corp. INDEX wherever else he was needed,' shop clause. have to pay an amount equal to were Willard J, Reed, board Business Notes . , 16A regular dues if they did not wish president, Gordon Brown and - Wellman, elected toafouryear Wellman and his wife, Bonnie, In a surprise 3-2 vote, the to join the association. Lloyd Ballard, Dale Farhat and have one son, Harold, Jr., a A local man, Coletta, was term, has been a resident of St. Classifieds . 14-15A new contract, calling for a base - The dues and charges from the Harry Wick were absent from the Johns since January 1969. He junior at St. Johns High School graduated from Rodney B.Wilson pay increase from $6,900 to $7,- associations amount to about meeting. and a daughter, Amy, an eighth Church Page. 10A High School and is presently a is a former chairman of the 400, was ratified more than two $100 per year. Ritchie indicated that copies board of Syracuse Bank, Syra grader at Rodney B. Wilson* Editorial 10B junior at Michigan State Univer weeks after the teachers ap - In defending the package pro of the contract would be drawn Junior Hteh. sity with a major in advertising. cuse, Ind. and former vice presi Farm News .... 12B proved the package Sept, 4. posal, Ritchie said that the con up and should be distributed this dent In charge of commercial tract was "the best we could get." week. loans at Citizens Bank of Michi The family resides at 423 Legal News 8A Mrs. Merry Sellhorn and Negotiations, which started in HAROLD WELLMAN gan City, Ind. • Meadowvlew in St. Johns. 'Obituaries 9A He plans to finish his B.A. James Decatur voiced their ob June, had been carried out A new insurance program with degree work at Michigan State jections to the agency shop clause throughout the summer without higher premiums was approved Society 11-13A University and work for the News demanded by the DeWitt Edu results. in the contract called Supermed Sports 3- 6A part time during the school year. cation Association (DEA), 70, an exclusive MEA life and ' Copies of Hubbardston resident killed At one point, the DEA filed un health insurance plan. The board Mrs. Sellhorn said her sole fair labor charges against the will pay up to $36.96 per month BUSINESS GROWTH A resident of Hubbardston was ber, 34, of 606 E. Cass St., St.;. Coletta, 20, is single and re reason for voting against the board for failure to produce for full coverage per teacher and fatally Injured Sept. 22 as the Johns, was heading west on-'. sides with this parents at 111 contract was "because of the school district records and family through this plan and up to REPORT result of a collision at the Inter French Road. •; N. Morton , St, Johns when not agency shop," teacher files. $7.50 per month for teachers who On Sale At section of Tallman Road and As the Burns auto was going £; attending College and in East She said she did not think The matter was settled without do not participate in the regular French Road In Lebanon Town through the Intersection the Wie-'/ Lansing. that the teachers should be asked formal hearings with the Em Insurance program. Clinton County News ship. ber auto collided with him throw- >* ployment Relations Commission Negotiations had been assigned William James Burns, 38, of ing both cars into a nearby field. .'* No marks in the tall grass in- ;• and the negotiations were re to a state mediation board in Business Office 291 Washington St., Hubbardston, 1 City Commissioners sumed. August after a settlement seemed was reportedly traveling north dlcated that both of the cars'; Teachers decided not to strike stalemated, but the mediator 25$ per copy on Tallman Road about noon when had flown through the air before •£ in a meeting Sept. 1, agreeing suggested a new schedule of talks a car driven by Lloyd W. Wle- they landed in their final post- \ to work without a contract for for the two parties. Both the tlons. -, spend busy Monday one week. In a special meet board and the teachers were Clinton County Sheriff's deput- .^ ing Sept. 4 they ratified the con apart on 170 paragraphs as the ies said Burns was thrown out V By TOM McELENEY sion approved the permanent tract presented by the Michigan new talks began Aug.