Bandits Get $5-$L 0,000 in Dewitt Bank Holdup
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Clinton a 30-name loser in 1968? Clinton County has a chance to nine or 10 more people, more David King, 22, of 14800 Mr King was dead on arrival walked into the path of a south be a 30-name loser in 1968! than enough to,put the count over Chandler Road, Bath, was killed at Clinton Memorial Hospital. bound car driven by Wayne E. Almost as rapidly as Denny 30. There's been an average of in a two - car collision last Beachler is still hospitalized, King, 19, of St. Johns, last Frl- McLain reached 30 victories In nearly three people killed In Wednesday night at French Road but nurses reported his condition the game of baseball, motorists highway accidents in the county and US-27. The car he was riding as "good" Monday evening. Rus (Story continued on Page ll-A) on Clinton County highways are every month. lii was struck broadside by one has been released from the hos approaching the 30 mark in the Clinton County law enforce driven by a rural St. Johns man pital but is now being held in the deadly highway game of traffic ment officials warn that some of who has since been charged with Clinton County Jail under $5,000 CLINTON COUNTY accidents/ the most hazardous times are negligent homicide. bond set by Municipal Judge Har Two more persons were added coming up, too. Fall rains, sleet He is Franklin Rus, 22, of old Reed on a charge of negligent to the "roster" last week, bring and winter snow will create haz 1307 Marshall Road. Rus, driving homicide. ing to 23 the number of people ards that don't exist in the sum west on French Road, allegedly The accident happened about Since January 1, 1968 killed in auto accidents in the mer. Their only hope is that mo passed another vehicle stopped at 8:35 p.m. last Wednesday. county this year. That can be torists -will slow down and take the-US-27 intersection and drove Mr King's obituary can be compared to only eight at this a little more care. out and into the side of the car found on Page A-7. time last year.' The deaths last week that Mr King.was riding in. That car, The 23rd traffic victim of the At the current death rate, Clin raised the' toll in the county to 23 northbound on US-27, was driven year was,a Lansing man, 57- THIS TIME LAST ton folks can expect to read about involved a two-vehicle accident by Paul Beachler, 28, of 14927 year-old Lester L.Larson of 941 YEAR: 8 the upcoming traffic deaths of and a car-pedestrian mishap. Chandler Road, Bath.. Maryland Street. He reportedly 2 SECTIONS - 34 PAGES 113th Year, No. 21 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN —THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1968 Plus 8-Page Tab 15 Cents Davey Joe Miller, 11, of Lansing is one of the young Indian braves likely to pow-wow Propose in St. Johns this weekend with an anticipated 200 other members of the Grand River Ameri 4 new can Indian Society. deputies Bandits get $5-$l 0,000 Indian tom-toms The Clinton County Sheriff's Department may get a boost of four men In an effort to improve law enforcement in the county. herald powwow Shriiff Percy Patterson made the request Monday to the Clin in DeWitt bank holdup ton County Boardof Supervisors, and after some study during the day, supervisors made a 21-1 here this weekend show of hands informal vote to • • • • • • • • • By LOWELL G. R1NKER, Editor * Indian tom-toms and ceremon dian?' The best way to find out," approve the request. i ial chants,will ring: across the Neyome said, "is to come and There was no formal action DeWlTT — Two gun-wielding bandits held up the Woodruff southwest side of St. Johns this visit us in St. Johns." taken, however, and probably the State Bank in DeWitt shortly before 2p.m. Monday and apparently weekend when an expected 200 Pow-wow time at the 4-H fair next step will be to see how the $2 million-plus budget made good their escape with "between $5,000 and'-$lbVfl00. members of the Grand River grounds is 2 and 8 p.m. Satur request will fit into the 1969 The bandits fired two shots, one at the vault door and one into American Indian Society gather day and 2 p.m. only on Sunday. budget. The board will adopt the the ceiling, to prove they meant business. None of the eight em on the 4-H grounds for a two-day There'll be a parking fee, but budget at the next meeting. ployees or two customers were hurt. All were forced to lie on pow-wow. there is no admission chargefor Elden Smith, mayor of De- . the floor. This weekend's event Is the the pow-wow. Indian crafts will Witt and chairman of the county for local schools OK'd State police and the Clinton County Sheriff's Department society's first "mixedpowwow," be available, Neyome said. board's, salary and clerk hire The St. Johns School Board crease in the budget is in the 030 is budgeted for the new year, immediately threw up road blocks, but the robbers were not caught meaning that both white dancers The sponsoring Grand River committee estimated it would has adopted a $2,144/560 oper elementary instruction area, compared to $408,471.71 spent in or even seen. The car which they used in their get-away—driven and Indian dancers will partici American Indian Society Is a cost about $30,000 in direct sal ating budget for 1968-69 and will where spending In 1967-68 to 1967-68. This increase involves by a third man—was later recovered on Krepps Road south of pate on the program. relatively new but extremely ac aries and fringe benefits to hire hold a public hearing on the bud taled $691,381.26 and where some $78,000 in salary increases Round Lake. It had been stolen from Flint. «We believe this to be the first tive organization. It's an "urban four new men. get Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. $903,462 is budgeted for 1968- for teachers and increases for mixed pow wow in the state spon The robbery loss was insured, according to Ralph Woodruff, Indian" club, as Neyome ex SHERIFF PATTERSON said in The new budget is $410,995 69. This is a result of the school other salaries, supplies and mis president of the Woodruff State Bank, He did not announce the sored by an all-Indian organiza plained it, with most of its mem his request to the board that the higher than actual spending of district's expansion into the new cellaneous expenses. tion," R. R,(Jack)Neyome, pres total amount taken. State police said the money was all in bills of bers being from urban areas of present fleet of sheriff's cars $1,733,565 during the past fiscal buildings in the rural areas and Most other areas, of figuring various denominations. ident of the society, said this the state. Neyome himself lives would probably be sufficient for year. Despite efforts, the budget higher salaries for regular show increases, reflecting the week. in Jackson. They gather period No alarm was sounded by bank employees, but state police the enlarged force, once a re foresees a deficit of about $21, teachers. There are also two costs of the times and the de were quickly notified after the bandits left when scared off by the •If the response is good by the ically for pow wows, most of scheduling of the cars and of 050 in operating receipts. This new principals hips involved in mands for services, school of which have been held in rural approach of a third customer. He was Clare O. Bouten Sr., who participants and viewing public, ficers can be made. compares to a deficit of $87,- elementary costs. ficials point out. The only ex was just driving up to the front of the bank. we make this an annual affair in areas; this is the first one ever 540.33 incurred as of July 30 this Secondary instruction will al ception Is In the area of federal to be held within the city limits The sheriff said it was his plan St. Johns or other cities through year. so cost more. A total of $519,- I Slory continued onPage-6-Ai of a town the size of St. Johns. to have two officers riding in at "HERE COMES A CUSTOMER, let'sgetoutof here," Woodruff out the state." least some of the cars, especial The 1968-69 budget calls for The viewing public will have a quoted one of the bandits as yelling to the other. Their get-away The society had Its origin on ly at night. He said that In these total receipts of $2,123,555. This car was angle parked at the curb in front of the bank, and Bouten lot to see at the pow-wow, ac a Saturday night, June 13, 1964. violent times it is particularly will include an estimated $842,- cording to Neyome, There'll be saw them leave. He was able to provide law officers with their rPlfteen Indians met to talk about dangerous for an officer to ans 760 In current property taxes, 2 County News staff . description and that of the car. i Indian costumes of jnany differ how to organize an Indian club wer a trouble call alone in some compared to $510,786.65 collect ent dances and tribes, many dif for Lansing.