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Authorities take steps to clarify picture V, Answer few questions at pollution control meeting They were all there but They were all there but control and solid waste Hisdis-. and jusiustnlait plain citizennifizpnss attend- sourcesnnwocs an™Ad thth«e Statoofoe nDepart ,- '„»„*„>, „........' te^d a..t th»,„«..»^e outse»t tha.u-4t hu e reall,,.y. sanitareo,,;.,,,,.y, landfillo^r.-nl questio..-_.,n is. - - ^-^ they learned little. It was posal and members of the sentative cancelled out the Class A roads in the Thumb billed as a meeting to get ed. ment of Health that could morning of the meeting. did not have the answers. settled. county planning commission Everyone was there except supply the answers 'that What Kimbrue did was read Nat Tuttle, village council- makes it more difficult. answers to perplexing ques- county commissioners, town- The meeting was called by In the spring our 40-ton tions concerning air pollution someone from the Michigan everyone wants. The State the Cass City Village Council the laws concerning landfills man, expressed some of the ship boards, village council Department of Natural Re- Health Department repre- trucks would be forced to Tuesday night at the Elkland and the open burning of frustration of many present carry half loads, doubling the Township Fire Hall and 35 .waste. when he asked.' What do we cost. persons attended. I've been instructed not to do, how long have we got, ho.w After the meeting, Commis- Handling the program for get "too deep" into this,, he much is(the cost? the evening was Village said, because of possible local Kimbrue said that the sioners Paul Nagy and May- President Lambert Althaver. pressure. department had been willing nard McConkey met with the He outlined the problems Kimbrue did say that busi- to go along with municipali- Bay City representatives and again. nesses considering installing ties that had shown "sincere agreed to ask the county The problems are: an incinerator must have one efforts" to solve the waste board of Commissioners to designed by an engineer to disposal problem. authorize an engineering Getting a license for the meet State approval. After Kimbrue talked, Paul study for a county-wide sanitary landfill operated That's the only concrete Schubert, a waste disposal disposal unit that would take by the village. fact that emerged from the the village out of the 'waste manager from Bay City, told disposal business. Learning just what is meeting••—*—e-. —m^aBusinesas pv-iounpersons^ l(thie grougroup 0o1f ppossible solu- needed for a State-appro^ receiving the request for "no^ tions, What about costs? Schubert 1 -said—tha t— he-hasn]t—really-~ "veaiarTdfiir "burr say it came from the He explained" a transfer •, Supplyino—.....__g dnswer,. s to Department of Natural Re- system where waste is taken studied the local situation Cass City businesses to sources. Kimbrue was under to pick-up points and then, enough to give an estimate^ detail how to meet current the impression that regula- transferred to a central ap- That answer, with varia- regulations concerning tion was under the auspices of proved facility. tions, was the one heard all burning in open containers. the health department. But In the metro Bay City area evening. • Learning what the in- maybe. I'm mistaken, he this system works well, he And the one that local creased cost to business confessed. said, but said that the lack of residents really didn't come could be under the new "No While not able to supply any to hear. burn" regulations. answers, Kimbrue did agree to contact the persons in The only person present charge of the air pollution LAMBERT ALTHAVER outlined the problems for local residents at Tuesday's that the group could turn to regulations to see if a meeting meeting. was Ed Kimbrue, Thumb can be arranged to delay District Health Department implementation of proposed representative, and he admit- regulations here until the Ill VOLUME 69, NUMBER 26 CASS CITY, MICHIGAN-THURSDAY; OCTOBER 23,1975 Twenty Cents SECTION A TWENTY PAGES School district's rosy finances pose problem of how best to spend money It's a rosy picture. In essence, that's the ques- No doubt about it, Cass City tion that Lambert Althaver, other teacher get paid the budget battle while charging School's financial picture is an interested taxpayer who same amount. taxpayers twice what we are better than good. also doubles as village presi- There is another avenue paying. Or attending school in ' It's that way because the dent, kicked around briefly open to the district. Spend half day sessions. district has plenty of money with Supt. Donald Grouse at a the system that are a notch . , . ,., money by hiring more teach- Figuring out the best way to for operation and necessary recent board meeting. instructed the superintendent ers and expanding the curri- spend money is a much below top caliber . every to go into the market with an lum improvements and still Maybe we should be spend- system has them. cu healthier position to be in boasts* the lowest tax rate in ing a little more money to The trouble is that money open checkbook to hire the Certainly there are areas than trying to figure out the area. I fu b^St,teacners? where it can be done. Fruitful where the money for the next hire better teachers, ^Althaver : , won't cure the ailment. Can .Befor f e the ink was dry.on , . tial, you It's-a rosy picture, but is it suggested. '" ' ,you imagine what might- areas too Not essen payday.is coming from. too rosy, too good to be true? ' Certainly, there are a few in happen if the school board the contract the union would''-understand; but, like frosting be demanding that every on tne cake] nice to have. i; It's likely that if you quizzed a dozen persons Freak accident Yl jTl'Ct interested in school affairs, aJLJLU.9 1JL1ute you'd come up with four or BORN LUCKY'— Amasa Ondrajka, 33, of five different opinions on what is needed. fatal for youth Unionville poses with a Centennial ticket, the That's not an insurmount- kind that won him $15,000 which he expects to able difficulty. Let's assume, A freak accident claimed charged with murder Monday just for kicks, that we've all the life of a . 16-year-old collect in about three weeks. What do you agreed on the best way to Mayville' youth Saturday. do when you win that much money? Pay bills, Jeffrey L. Colosky was Six criminal cases, high- burn property - a house - tenced Monday. tion for two years. In addition enrich our program. period, says Ondrajka, who went on working lighted by the arraignment of where James Don Nicol of Karl Humpert of Akron was he was ordered to pay a fine We are off, full steam discovered about noon by his Frank J. Snydcr, Caro, on a Wilmot lives. sentenced to 18 months to six of $200 and costs of $200. ahead. step-mother buried from the at the Gagetown gas station without missing charge of murder, were heard A motion to dismiss a years at Jackson Prison for Alvin L. Manning faced Everything is even more waist up in sand. a beat. Ondrajka says that he is a steady Monday in Tuscola County charge of burning a dwelling • parole violation. He was on some unpleasant music for rosy than before. The trouble The youth was dug out by Circuit Court in Caro before was taken under advisement. parole for breaking and stealing a 4-string'guitar from is, like going over Niagara other family members and gambler with the lottery, but not a plunger. I Judge Norman A. Baguley. Richard Lee Haley's, of entering in March. His viola- Robert Molina of Vassar. Falls in a barrel, starting is was estimated to have been bought just two of the $5 tickets and spend $1 Snyder stood mute, and a Caro, motion for a speedy tion was receiving and con- He was placed on probation much easier than stopping. buried for about 15 minutes. plea of innocent was entered trial was granted. His trial cealing stolen property. for 36 months for larceny If the heavy flow of State Evidently an 18-foot hill a week for the green tickets. Moderate, but for him in the shotgun slaying will be held Nov. 4. A motion Jerry > Emery, Vassar, from a building. In addition tax dollars suddenly changes where Jeffrey was digging lucky, describes him. In the past two years, in of Ronald A. Shorts, 33, of for reduction of bond was found guilty of driving under he must pay $200 costs, $200 to a trickle and the .district no caved in around him. He was Mississippi. denied. the influence of liquor, second fine and make restitution to longer can get by on the digging for items buried in addition to the big win, he has also had two Three persons were sen- offense, was placed on proba- Molina of $100. minimum local levy the State the hill. Shorts was reportedly shot The accident occurred on $25 winners. The ticket was purchased at through the head in a bed- requires as we do now, what Bill's Grocery in Gagetown. room of a home on Wells do we cut? the family property in Fre- Road, 3'/a miles south of Caro, Every district feasts or mont township. on Sept. 22. famines on the whims of the The suspect is being, held legislators at Lansing. without bail. You can see that there Paul R.