August 8, 1968 CLINTON COUNTY NEWS, St*
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Clinton County 4-H Fair opens next Monday Hours, -weeks and months of graphy, safety, teen leadership, enter judging. 12 and exhibits not housed at the entries and setting up of exhibits at 7:30 p.m. At 8 p.m. the St. turing English horses and ponies preparation by hundreds of 4-H. automotive, cultural arts, dog All articles exhibited must fairgrounds will be released at will commence at 9 a.m. and a Johns High School Band will is scheduled for 10 a.m.* and a members of Clinton County will care, weather, recreation, have been made or grown, or • the end of the horse show. Eng western show will start at 10 present a concert. swine showmanship contest will materialize on Monday when the veterinary science and animal animals cared for during 1968. lish horse and pony exhibits a.m. After lunch, a tractor Tuesday's events include the be underway about, 10:30. At Annual Clinton County 4-H Club science. being housed at the fairgrounds operator's contest will be on at display of vegetable and flower 11:30 a sheep showmanship con Fair opens. Competition for awards in the ANIMALS EXHIBITED must be will be checked in from 9 a.m. 2:30 and throughout the after garden exhibits which will start test will be held. By 1 p.m. the, • Included In this years listing various categories is limited to owned by the exhibitor, except to 5 p.m. Aug. 12. Others will noon the exhibitors will be enT setting up at 9 a.m. and should Judging of beef cattle entries of exhibit categories are: live exhibitors ages 10 through 18. horses. No bulls or stallions be checked in Aug. 13 from 9 to titled to free swimming at the be completed by noon.,At 9 a.m. should be on and the flower stock, horticulture, home eco Anyone in this age group, who will be accepted. 10 a.m. and will be released at pool. ' the Judging of all entries with show will be from 1 to 2 p.m. nomics, crafts and science, ag will not reach 19 years of age as Western horse exhibits will be the end of the horse show. Monday evening, an all-star the exception of dairy cattle will The only evening event sched- riculture, conservation, photo of Sept. 30 will be eligible to registered from 9 to 10 a.m. Aug. On Monday, the receiving of Softball. game is on the agenda start. Another horse show fea (Story continued on Page 3-A) * / • • • • • • County hits health unit on perc tests 113th Year, No. 15 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN — THURSDAY, AUGUST 8,1968 2 SECTIONS —32 PAGES 15 Cents County supervisors,-wh6 have at least inwardly been critical of county health department approval of building sites, voted Mon day to knock $8,000 off the department's appropriation In October Tornadoes unless a change in policy is made. A resolution to that effect passed on a voice vote, with only one dissenting voice being heard. The resolution actually mentions swirl no alternative to the $8,000 cut In the appropriation to the Mid- Michigan District Health Department, but supervisors seemed to over area want to use it as a lever to get the situation corrected. Patterson polls well, wins * The controversy is over health department approval of build Political emphasis shifted to ing sites on land which the supervisors and County Drain Com weather emphasis Monday eve missioner Dale Chapman contend don't provide an adequate soil 1 ning as Clinton County residents percolation test. waited out a tornado warning that Supervisor Earl Barks of Olive Township led the criticism, lasted almost two hours. aimed at G. Robert Yager, registered sanitarian with the health Several funnel clouds were department. Barks contended that too many percolation tests were sighted aloft In the southern part being approved on land which had been turned down several times of the county and in Lansing, and renomination as sheriff previously. the DeWltt City Fire Department "I don't feel we're getting dollars and cents received for our confirmed at 10:08 p.m. that a expenditures" from that department, Barks commented. Clinton County Sheriff Percy J. Patterson breezed to a re- • •„ •• • tornado had touched down near nomination victory in the primary election Tuesday, outscoring the Capital City Airport in De- the nearest of three competitors by a better than 4-3 margin. THE MID-MICHIGAN DISTRICT Health Departmentwastoget Witt Township. $37,976 under the proposed county budget adopted in April. That Patterson gathered a total of 2,633 votes in what was de Supervisors seek fixed For the threat that it did pose, scribed as a relatively light turnout of electors over the county. would probably be pared, anyway, before the final budget Is adopted the storm did little damage, ac in October, but the supervisors' resolution would chop $8,000 off Ramon Terpening, a former deputy under Patterson, was the cording to reports Tuesday closest competitor, piling up a total of 1,835 votes. millage November vote of that figure. A like reduction in pro-rated contributions from morning. A tree was blown down Gratiot and Montcalm counties (others figuring In the department) on a car on Coleman Road east Bruce Angell n, DeWltt Town ship police chief, poUed 1,497 The Clinton County Board of Supervisors wants to place a would hurt, supervisors said. of US-27, and three homes in the proposal for fixed millage before the voters In the November . Yager said Tuesday morning he was unaware there was any Bath area were struck by light votes, and Anthony Pohl, form er Ingham deputy sheriff, came election. problem of this magnitude. ning; damage was reported mi The board adjourned their regular session Monday afternoon •We've been using what I've felt to be standard percolation nor. * ' In with 641 votes. Patterson, who has been sher about 5:30, with the next meeting subject to the call of the chair tests," he said, ^and I can't think of any places we've approved Clinton County Civil Defense, man. The aim is to have the meeting in time to act on a hoped-for where the septic system has gone totally bad," iff. for 20*years-and with the Director Charles Frost said the department for 43 years, Is al "resolution from the county allocation board in time to meet legal As to the number of approvals, he said *It seems like we've warning procedure "went well requirements for the November election. been turning more down lately than we've allowed to go through." most assurred of election In the across the county, as far as I'm November general election. The fixed millage question came up during the last hour of the Chapman, county drain commissioner, was called to the board concerned. It was the best re - board's meeting Monday. There was a checking of the laws to de meeting at Barks' request. He said "We're facing a critical prob sponse we've ever had from the There were no Democratic can didates on the ballot, and only termine the time element involved, but no discussion as to what lem with the health department." He said he disagreed with the whole county." amount of fixed millage should be asked. method of taking perc tests and contended the job was not being a few write-in votes appeared. Patterson ran strong in almost That, apparently, would be up to the county allocation board, done the way it should be done. WARNING SIRENS were not which must initiate a petition requesting a fixed millage for the Barks' main concern seemed to be over the need for repeated sounded in St. Johns under apian all parts of the county, although Terpening carried precinct two county. Under such a plan, millage allocated to the schools, county visits to a prospective building site. Supervisor Herman Open- to blow them only in theeyentthe PERCY J. PATTERSON * and township would remain the same every year. As It is now, the lander of Watertown Township suggested some sort of limitation city isdirectlythreatened. Police in St. Johns by three votes, -Ri ley Township by 23 and Eagle allocation board meets every year to divide al5-mill total among be put on the number of inspections. Chief Everett Glazier sent spot make any impression elsewhere. the various branches of government. Gerald Shepard, Bath Township supervisor and a member of ters out on the west and.south by* 40 votes; Patterson gained Pohl never was able to get big headway in Duplain with a Finance Commlttee_Chairman Derrili Shinabery brought the the Mid-Michigan District Health Board from Clinton County, said sides of the city, and both police started. question up at the July board meeting, and he recommended then he has brought up the problem to the board on several occasions, men and firemen participated. 167-55 margin.'^ Angell ,ran strong in his home an 18-mill base. ' but nothing is being done to Implement a change. "I'm not happy Sheriff's department vehicles THE SHERIFF'S race was the over the situation," he said, and he indicated his next move might were spread out across the west township of DeWltt but failed to REX SIRRINE only competition at the county be to resign unless some action could be gotten. side of the county. St. Johns fire level. All other candidates ran men stood by at city hall. unopposed. Frost said the official tornado County Clerk Ernest Carter warning came at 9:05 p.m.