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Call 224-2361 Clinton County News Day or Night S&hvm^JthsLClinJt0n,(bisuL$in^ 15 Cents 117th Year Vol.31 ST JOHNS, MICHIGAN 48879 36 Pages December 6,1972 Units wait for checks It's revenue waiting game Are you concerned about getting the straight facts.on a question which arises but don't On the county level, commissioners It's a waiting game in Clinton County no checks had been received by Mon the Revenue Sharing egg is hatched." BATH CHARTER Township, are working with a figure of $353,000, know where to find the answer? day night. At their Monday night meeting the operating with several new board We'll find the facts for ques for county units wondering: "how much previously reported to be slated for the and When?" While the County Board Of Com DeWitt city administrator, Dan Elliott, members since the November election, county government. tions submitted by our readers. Although figures have been released missioners have made tentative plans said he couldn't name an exact figure also has not made any plans for the They have approved $150,000 for road Just drop us a line at FACT naming amounts units are to receive for fheir share of Revenue Sharing, DeWitt would receive and recom federal funds. other units, such as DeWitt Township mended delaying plans for use of the In DeWitt Township, officials are also improvement on a 1-year program. FINDER, Clirtton'County News from Federal Revenue Sharing no Road commissioners have requested St Johns 48879. definite amounts have been named and are not counting their "chickens until funds until the check is received. waiting for the check to arrive before putting the money to any specific use. $150,000 for 5 years, but the county said Q. We have been hearing rumors that they have no way of knowing how much something might be done about the St Johns is another unit not making they will receive in the future and didn't partially razed dwelling on South any plans until they have the check in want to obligate the board beyond 1 Lansing St. We have talked to the owner hand. The city has set up a special year. this past year and she said they would account for the money and Tom Hun A total of $68,786 was set for the do something about it. It is a health dley, city clerk, said he believes Sheriff's Dept to finance salaries, hazard and an eyesore not to mention definite plans for the funds will be made children being seen playing in the when the city receives, the money. (SEE PAGE 3AJ building. They could get hurt. The fire department burned down a building next to this one this past summer in a fire drill. Couldn't they do this to this eyesore, too? BC, ST JOHNS. Hospital joins new A. Because you and other neighbors helped put the heat on, there'll be_a big bonfire in your neighborhood this month. St Johns Fire Chief Clare Maier placental tissue study says the owner applied to the State Department of Public Health for a burning permit. The city's volunteer ST JOHNS - Efforts to further reduce hospitals, both medical and fire department is tentatively planning infant mortality in Michigan involve a osteopathic, examine abnormal to burn the structure at its monthly fire partnership between Clinton Memorial placentas in their own pathology, drill-the third Monday. Afterwards Hospital, St Johns, and *the new departments, and both medical and maybe things will cool down a bit. Placental Tissue Registry of the osteopathic physicians send placentas Michigan State Medical Society. to the MSMS registry for a greater Q. What is holding up the bringing to Clinton Memorial Hospital is one of 26 concentration of minute details. trial the several men who were in Michigan cooperating in the MSMS Gross (naked eye) and microsopic arrested this last summer for pushing research project, started in 1970. examinations of tissues are performed drugs to the young people of St Johns? I "The MSMS Committee on Maternal at the registry by Charles H Sander, icard one of the young men arrested and Perinatal Health feels that the MD, assistant professor of pathology at brag the other day that they were going placenta may provide clues to hidden MSU, and Doctor Cipparone, who is to drop the case against them. How can birth defects and deaths of infants," also an associate clinical professor of the city spend SGOO to set up a bust and reports Joseph R Cipparone, MD, of pathology at MSU, Each year the then not follow through? Taxpayer Lansing, chairman of the Tissue registry received more than 100 parent, ST JOHNS. Registry. specimens in 1971 and 150 so far this Dr Cipparone, a pathologist, says it is year from various hospitals around the A. Those charged must be afforded unfortunate the research is just now state including the Upper Peninsula. heir procedural, rights, according to being applied to the placenta - a About one half were associated with Clinton County Prosecuthig * Attorney -cakelike qrgan within the uterus which infant deaths. Jon Newman, whd adds they've beeri provides nutrition for the Unborn child. There is no charge to the physician or taking full advantage of them, too. Two According to Dr Cipparone, patient for studying the specimen pleaded'guilty to charges of delivery of examination of the placenta can reporting. The registry receives an LSD and were sentenced to 3 years sometimes provide clues to medical annual $1000 grant from the Bureau of probation. Trials for 2 others, also problems that may threaten the life of a Maternal Health of the Michigan charged with LSD delivery are likely to child or indicate a hidden birth defect Department of Public Health to cover set next week at the opening of the that once identified can be corrected. In the case of an infant death, study of the expenses. December circuit court term. .The The placenta of a young woman who remaining 2 are to be arraigned in placenta may produce information that can be used to help the mother produce had to deliver her second baby by circuit court Dec 18. Prosecutor Caesarean section was recently Nev/man says there's no chance the a normal, healthy child if she becomes pregnant again. received by Dr Cipparone. Although cases against them will be dropped and her five-pound baby lived, it had been in that the charges carry a maximum of 7 TO FURTHER placenta research, some difficulty during the delivery. Dr years imprisonment. The actual sen Clinton County Sheriff Percy Patterson and wife, Dora, were the guests Cipparone hopes to find some hidden tencing is up to the judge. the Michigan State Medical Society set clue in the placenta which will help the of honor at a noon luncheon at Daley's Monday in St Johns. Present were up the Placental Tissue Registry at the young woman have a healthier Q. When is the St Johns school system Michigan State University College of law enforcement officials, judicial members, attorneys and other county .Human Medicine. pregnancy next time. going to do something about the He told of the case of a 19-year-old playground at the Central Elementary officials who honored Percy, who is retiring as sheriff after 24 years of The purpose of the registry is the "Acquisition of pathologic placental woman who delivered a stillborn baby. School? Not only is much of the The woman had had eclampsia, a form equipment hazardous but it is con service, from 1949 until 1973. During the dinner he was presented with a tissue specimens contributed from various sources in the State of Michigan of toxemia, with convulsions, while tinually muddy and -dirty. My son snowmobile suit and boots and Mrs Patterson received a table centerpiece. pregnant. When he examined her comes home filthy and has already and dissemination of the knowledge gained by a study of these specimens placental tissue he found fatty gone through a $25 coat. MW, ST materials at its base similar to those JOHNS. to those concerned with the care of the pregnant patient and her child," Dr which could be found in the blood Eagle patrons help Cipparone said. The files of the registry vessels of a coronary arteriosclerotic A. Progress is frozen right now. patient. That's because cold weather stops the are maintained in the pathology department at MSU. After further tests he advised her contractor from putting another layer obstetrician toputher on an anti- or low on an approximate 150 x 79 ft Michigan is believed to be the only cholesterol diet. If she becomes playground area which has already capture 4 subjects state having such a registry, Dr Cip pregnant again, Doctor Cipparone been blacktopped. Central elementary parone reports. hopes the diet will aid her in having a principal Mike O'Connor says workmen EAGLE - Four would-be villains got Posey of Rt 3 Portland-went to Catlin's a round from Catlin's-gun. Dr Cipparone said nearly all successful delivery. ot started late and a good job couldn't more than they bargained for recently. aid. Arrested were Gary Eugene Slater, be done now if the sealer coat was "* Accprding to Sheriff's Dept reports 2 They held the 2 when another came 21, 1428 Kenilworth Dr, Lansing; applied. He agrees with you that the subjects entered the Eagle Inn at 12:27 out, but got away when chased. William Mikulcik, 20, 3833 Wilson Ave, area has been a quagmire in the past am and ordered beer and pizza.