) r 'Nighttime' Soap Box Derby Teen activities page City treasurer resigns St. Johns native INSIDE: See Page 1 B Pages 6 and 7 B Page 2 A 100 years old — Page 3 A i * S Jww*J+*pit********** "• ** A*M"W**M**\|VA(. »^l w t - \ft GM donates -'$* $ 25,000 to hospital 111th Year, No. 45 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN —THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967 2 SECTIONS - 32 PAGES 15 Cents General Motors Corp. lias of the hospital's service to GM made a contribution of $25,000 to employees in the St. Johns area. assist In the financing of the cur­ Ink White of St. Johns, chair­ rent building expansion project man of the hospital board, ex­ Amendment vote April 11 at Clinton Memorial Hospital in pressed his community's grati­ St. Johns. tude, for the company's gift when The donation was recommend­ presentation of the $25,000 check ed by members of GM's Lansing was made in Lansing by Harold Plant-City Committee on behalf N. Metzel, general manager of of Oldsmobile and Fisher Body Oldsmobile and a GM vice pres­ Divisions and is in recognition ident; THE EXPANSION at Clinton Charter study casts doubt Memorial Hospital involves the Snow erection of sizeable additions to the present 40-year-old struc­ ture and extensive improvements cleanup to existing facilities. Construction work began last August and completion is sched­ costly uled for mid-September of 1967. Total cost of the project, includ­ on city mil lag e limitation Taking care of Clinton Coun­ ing new equipment, will be in ex­ cess of $1,100,000. ty's road system is a costly JOSEPH RICKER business, at least this winter, A major contribution to the fi­ City voters will.be asked in April to according to the weekly report nancing of the project is a fed­ clarify nebulous wording in the St. Johns from Road Commission Clerk eral HUl-Burton grant of $560,- Ricker Don Ewing. Q00. Other funds are being sup­ city charter that casts some legal doubt on The storm of late January and plied through liquidation of the provisions for taxation. the subsequent snows and drift­ hospital's unrestricted endow­ wins F-M ing cost Clinton County$86,313.- ment and loans negotiated by the New wording is included in one of a 65, or 10 per cent of the road hospital board. package of 10 sections that are proposed to commission's yearly income, No general community cam­ promotion Ewing said. paign for funds is contemplated, Federal - Mogul Division's replace 62 sections in the existing charter. - "Adjustment of some of this but a limited solicitation of area production superintendent at the The charter revi­ year's* road programs will be industrial, business and profes­ St. Johns plant, Joseph N. Rick­ provisions of the Home Rule necessary to compensate for this sional firms is under way. er, has been promoted to staff sions will be voted Act." additional cost," he said. engineer with the international W April 11 at the The clarifying wording in the group of the company. The new same time as a pro­ proposed amendment to the char­ WINTER MAINTENANCE has Vandals position was effective Wednes­ ter is in Section 2 under taxation. kept road crews working for five day. posal for a new fire- It provides that the city commis­ consecutive weekends. Ricker has been with Federal- police hall. sion •« . . . shall have power to Final figures on the annual fi­ delay. Mogul here 19 years and since levy and collect taxes for munic­ nancial report for 1966 show that 1958 has been production super­ The present city charter it- , ipal purposes in a sum not to expenditures exceeded income by intendent. self places no limit onthe millage exceed two (2) percentum of the $41,732.58. The largest expense 15 buses In his new position, Ricker will the city commission can spread assessed value of all real and be In a technical advisory capac­ to meet its budget, although the personal property in the city as item was $320,942.79 for local' Vandals apparently bent on not road maintenance, followed by ity for the six Federal-Mogul provision on taxation says «... provided by law." That would going to school attacked 15 St. plants in Europe, South America, the amount annually raised shall spell out the limitation clearly. $303,292.28 for primary con­ Johns school buses Mondaynight, 1 struction. - Japan and Mexico. not exceed the limits fixed by This section and all 10 sec­ putting them out of commission the state'law;" tions that, have been rewritten Total income from all sources for part of Tuesday. was over $1 million for the rfiS" FIRST FOREIGN assign­ and proposed -for amending the first time, the largest item being * But school went on anyway, and ment with the international-group CITY ATTY. HAROLD Reed charter appear on Page 11A as of course, from-the motor vehicle the few buses that were still will be at the Puebla, Mexico, cast doubt on the current taxation part of the city commission min­ plant, where his specific respon­ levies after studying the refer­ utes for the Feb. 7 meeting. highway fund that accounts for operable picked up rural students • * $25,000 FOR HOSPITAL BUILDING FUND; , 80 per cent of the total. on main roads. Parents helped sibilities will include the train­ ence in the state law while making : out by bringing their youngsters ing of key supervisors and plant a study of .the charter at the re­ ALL 10 SECTIONS OF the pro­ The board of road commis­ ; Harold N. Metzel of Lansing (left), general manager of Oldsmobile sioners will hold their next reg­ into school, in many cases. Only personnel in the operation of quest of the commission. posed amendment resolution ular meeting this Friday. Bids about 13 per cent of the student equipment and establishment of The Home Rule Act, which is simplify wording, Mayor Coletta^ Division and a Genera! Motors vice president, hands his company's check will be opened for the year's body was out of school-at noon. methods and procedures aimed at tne general law that applies to the said, essentially putting 28 sec­ increased efficiency and im­ situation-, provides for a maxi­ tions on general taxation and 34 for $25,000 to*lnk White, chairman of the board of directors of Clinton requirements for salt and cal­ All 15 damaged buseswerere- cium chloride. Also up for bid proved productivity. mum levy of 20 mills, unless the section^ on special assessments Memoria I Hospital in St. Johns. Looking on at the presentation are f paired and ready to* roll by noon Ricker's promotion was an­ city charter does not definitely together into 10 sections under taking Is the March and April Tuesday, and all rural students William W. Barber, chairman of the building committee for the project, requirement of gasoline. nounced Friday by w. C. Robert­ establish a ceiling, in which case a single classification of "Taxa­ were returned home by bus on a son, director of engineering and the maximum would be 10 mills. tion." and Harold B. Reed (at right), administrator at Clinton Memorial. nearly normal basis. manufacturing for the interna­ City commissions since 1933, The exaqt wording which city THE COMMISSIONERS, en­ tional group. gineer and clerk attended the Police are investigating the according to research by city of­ residents will vote on April 11 seven-county council last week. vandalism. The vandals pulled' "Mr Ricker's mechanical ex­ ficials, have apparently regarded is: Plans firmed The program was on roadside distributor wires out, .tossed perience and ability and back­ the 20 mills as the legal taxa­ "Shall the city charter be Albion College weed and, brush spray and data away radiator caps and in some ground gained over the past 19 tion limit. At the last city tax amended to delete Sections 1 processing. Cogitate Inc. pre­ cases cut gas lines. years with the Federal-Mogul billing, -the city levied a little through 28 under General Taxa­ for Fowler sented their computer /service Division can certainly be put to over 16 mills, including three tion and Sections 1 through 34 program designed especially for Possibly connectedwiththebus good use in our various overseas mills approved by voters in the under special assessments and choir next road commissions. vandalism was damage done by locations," Robertson said. $850,000 water* improvement to replace the sections deleted bond issue in January 1964. .with 10 sections under one single village park apparently two youths in the Jour­ THOSE ' 19 YEARS have all nalism room at the high school. * heading of Taxation?" ( ) Yes, been at the St. Johns F-M plant. for amendment; ( ) No, against FOWLER—A community park, CLINTON COUNTY They got in via the fire escape Ricker started here Feb. 1,1948. • "THERE ARE PROVISIONS in something long desired and need­ Lenten feature In the southwest corner of the the charter that mention 20 amendment. But he worked wlthFederal-Mo- ed, is going to become a reality The 72-voice Albion College was recorded in 1966 and serves traffic deaths school, opened and scattered gul at the Detroit Shoemaker mills,'' Mayor Charles Coletta The proposed, amendments are in Fowler. drawers, upset a typewriter and said this week, "but the wording Choir, now, in its 36th season, as an "aural'handbook* for many since Jan. 1,1967 plant in 1929 and also worked at the first of a series which the . Through the combined efforts will present a .concert of sacred Methodist churches. scattered some undeveloped film is such that there is a legal city commission expects will be the Fresno; Calif, plant from of the Fowler Village Council music this Sunday evening In the The choir is chosen after try- around on the ground outside the , 1940 to 1948. Not all that time doubt as to whether the charter (See CHARTER, Page 2-A) and the Fowler Jaycees, land that school. is in direct conflict with thestatc fourth of a series of six union outs among the 1,600 students was continuous, however; Ricker has been In virtual disuse will Lenten services in St. Johns. at Albion. The director, David was in business for himself in law. , ' TEEN-AGE DANCE; March 4; be transformed,into a recrea­ DANCING EVERY Wednesday v "To resolve this conflict, the 8:00 p.m. Jim Rich Disc Jockey. The service will be held in California for three years, man­ tional and aesthetic asset for this PICTURE ON PAGE 5-A THIS TIME LAST with the Majesties. Popular ufacturing optical laboratory city commission has rewritten Tickets $1.00. Masonic Temple, mid-Michigan community. the First Congregational Church YEAR: 3 sound music. H & H Lounge^ St. the entire section on taxation so West State Street, St. Johns. -• The park will be situated on a and will start at 7:30 p.m. " Johns. -Adv. 45-2 (See RICKER, Page 2-A) that it complies exactly with the -Adv. 45-1 L. Strickler, has been with the square block,of land bounded by The Rev Keith Bovee, pastor Albion faculty since 1943 and West Ionia Street on the north, has 'been chairman of ihe music North Sorrel on the west, West of the First Methodist Church - si will be the worship leader. department sincel953. Wayne on the south and North Ushers, greeters and coffee Maple on the east. It is the old Fowler's 'Round School' has interesting past hostesses will be members of the HE" IS DIRECTOR of vocal village square immediately north „ congregational~Church~ organizations and teacher of By STANLEY WEBER s of the old high school site. . voice, choral conducting • and i The land was historically in­ " THE ALBION COLLEGE Choir church music courses. Prior to FOWLER—One-room school houses are a thing of the past tended for such park purposes. annually tours the East and Mid­ his affiliation with Albion, Prof. these days, but £ lot of people who got a start on their educa- ; John N. Fowler, whose name the west, as well as-Michigan, sing- Strickler taught voice and music tion in them certainly aren't forgetting them. village, bears and donator of the 'ing before church and high theory and served as choral This is particularly the case with.the Round_ School, an plot to the village, stipulated in school audiences. It was invited conductor for five years at Mac.- octagonal (eight-sided) schoolhouse which now sets forlornly the deed that it was his wish that to sing three times for the. Murray College in Jackson­ on the southwest corner of French and Grange roads northwest at some future time his gift would General Conference o f the ville, HI. - of Fowler. , ' be made Into a park. Methodist Church in Pittsburgh It is well over 100 years old, and .a lot of children got a in 1964. He has published several SAID FRANCIS Schafer, pres­ choral compositions .and is a lot of education there 'until it 'closed its doors in 1942. Just ident of the Fowler Jaycees^ 1 , -"' how old it is no one seems to know for sure. Said Mrs Grace The boards of. education of the mepiber -of the Michigan Com­ •We are only'carrying oiit the 1 Phillips Bissell of Pewamo, a 1903 graduate of the Round final wish of Fowler." (Methodist chur £h has.commis­ posers Club and Phi Mu Alpha School: Asked whether the building of sioned the choir to record two Sinfonla, national men's musical •MY GRANDFATHER, CHARLES Phillips; was 4 years the park would deprive the grade albums. The "Hynm of the Month fraternity. Album Number nD was recorded old in 1860 when he moved with his parents from Wayne Coun­ , school children .of their accus­ The union Lenten service of ty, and the schoolhouse was there then, he used to tell us.* tomed play area, Schafer said, by the choir in 1964.'"An In- . troduction to the Mew Methodist worship is open to everyone in At any rate It was probably one of the* first public buildings (See FOWLER, Page 2-A) the St Johns area ^constructed as settlers began streaming into the mid-Michigan ' Hymnal," an album of 14 hymns, area in the earlyland middle 1800s. ' In Clinton County, people" were being lured to settle along the Maple 'River. In what is" present-day Lebanon Township* . At 15c . . \ still your best buy a group of hardy settlers took up residence and began ..farming the land. Some of the early families were: the Brookses, the f*S*#»*. Single-copy prices and yearly subscrip­ duction and delivery. It is Ihe first change Hales* the Phlllipses, the O'Connors, the Franks, the Winanses, tion rates for the Clinton County News the Stones, the Messers and the Duffers/ first known as the in single copy prices since, October 1952 K\ will increase slightly this week. Single and the first change In yearly rate since Dleffenderfers. 1 ,/ copies will" cost 15 cents—up from 10 about 1960. After a while, the need for a school became apparent to cents—and the yearly subscription rate The publishers pltdft their continued these people* H. C. Hale donated some of his land, and on it" will go up from $4 a year to $5 a year. efforts to make the Clinton County News ^ was erected an octagonal (eight-sfded) schoolhouse. The struc­ Theole old Round School House, an octagonal-shaped buildinbuilding north­ The increases are being made reluc­ friendly and /readable and to give you ture took on the name, "RoundSchbol",andthe district became tantly to help meet rising costs of pro­ full value for your subscription dollar. west of Fowler, still stands though,difapitated and unused except for farm known as the Round School District, or District 6. & .;•;.- ., , . . ••%•. storage. But it has a rich history that dates back over 100 years. (See FOWLER'S ROUND, Page'4-A) Page 2 A CLINT6N COUNTY NEWS,-* St. Johns, Michigan Thursday, March 2, Businesses shift scenes in downtown Six St, Johns businesses ar"e Title Co., which recently pur­ ground floor but will be larger at work in the building that once house, the sale of the abstract involved in a big rearrangement chased the records of the Clin­ in size than the company's pres­ housed St. Johns Dry Cleaners. department is resulting in some of sites and expansions in the ton County Abstract Department. ent location. They'll open -up Robert Conn, the owner, Is re­ office location changes thpre, too. downtown area. in the Walker Street location modeling the back pari: of It to When the'abstractfilesaremoved The Quality Discount House, THE MICHIGAN Title Co., Monday. provide .more warehouse space to.Burton's new location on Clin­ operated by Tom Wilson, opened which has been holding forth at The Credit Bureau of Clinton for his carpeting business, the ton Avenue, the driver's license up last Wednesday morning in 1011/2 N. Clinton Ave*hue, above County, in the meantime, will E.P. Boron Co. That should be division of the sheriff's office the building at Clinton and Walk­ . Walker's Cafe, is moving to a move to the rear of the build­ ready In a week or so. will move to the old abstract er occupied formerly by the ground-floor location in the front ing, and a paneled hallway leads , The front part of the building, office, giving ,it more elbow D&C Store before they moved part of the Clinton County Cred­ to it from thefrontdoor. There'll Conn said, would be available room. * *down the street to new quarters it Bureau building at 117 E. be a rear entrance, too. Office j for office space. THIS CHANGE opens up the old last fall. The change provides Walker Street. space will be about the same St. Johns Dry Cleaners moved licensing office area across from Quality Discount with vastly more That building has been remod­ in square footage but in a better to a partially new, partially re­ the county clerk, and in this and - floor space. eled and as Helen Cepko, man­ format. * modeled building on the corner an adjacent empty office will be Scheduled to go into the old ager of the Michigan Title Co. of West Walker and Brush Streets placed the county's microfilming, location at 119 N. Clinton Ave- office, said, it will not only ACROSS THE STREET at 108 several months ago. copying and other such, equip­ 'nue is the Burton Abstract and be more modern and on the E. Walker Street, carpenters are Up at the Clinton County Court- ment. •• •*'-.•<•• *• •• •• -A Betterly resigns as city treasurer-accountant Dead trees, The resignation of DonaldBet- sworn into that office. approved the installation of 25 light on North. Emmons at Hig- terly as city treasurer-account­ Betterly , 33, of DeWitt, "was new mercury vapor lights at ham; eight new 20,000-lumen now termed ant for the City of St. Johns was hired by the city last June as various locations around the city, lamps on the 100 and 200 blocks 9 accepted by the city commission ' accountant. all at a net increase in cos't to of West Higham Street, replac­ ^nuisance last Tuesday night. It will be ef­ Mrs Olive PungwiU continue in the city per year of $936.70. ing eight incandescentlightsjflve fective March 15. the post of treasurer, a position The lights include a 10,000- new 6,5Q0-Iumen lights to re­ A city ordinance making dead Betterly was appointed by the Greer says she has never given lumen mercury vapor light \t place two on West Baldwin street or diseased- trees on public or commission lastSeptembertothe up in practice or, it seems, in Floral and Walker streets on west of Morton; two new 6,500- private property a public nui­ AT CHURCH OF NAZARENE SUNDAY pdsltion of city treasurer, but title. v North Lansing and four" 6,500- lumen lights on Circle Drive, sance was passed by the St. Johns City Manager Ken Greer said lumen lamps between , all re­ where thare are none now; arid two City Commission last Tuesday The Joybells and Denny — Tracy> Pam, Cindy Betterly never qualified for that IN OTHER BUSINESS last placing six incandescent lights new 20,000-lumen lamps on the night and will take effect March and Dennis Lewis — will appear this Sunday at position because he was never Tuesday,* the city commission now there; a new 6,500-lumen parking lpt at the south end of 13. the city park football field (the TJie new ordinance, according the 10 a.,m. worship service at the Church of the school board will pay the cost to City Manager Ken Greer, Nazarene/515 N. Lansing Street, Pastor Rev El- ot the latter two lights). spells out in specifics existing don Raymond announced this week. 'Installation of all the new lights charter provisions. The ordin­ and removal of the old ones is ance requires property owners expected to take about a year, City to remove dead or diseasedj trees Manager Greer said. The com­ from their property within 15 Richer . . . F-M to buy days of notification by the city. mission approved the installa­ DONALD BETTERLY (Continued from Page 1-A) tions at the recommendation of . . . city accepts resignation New York firm Consumers Power Co. IF THE TREES aren't removed equipment. An agreement for the acquisi­ 1 1 by the expiration of the 15 days, Ricker is a member of the tion of the National Grlnging THE COMMISSION finally set *• the city will have them removed American Society of Tool En­ Wheel Co., Inc., by Federal-Mo­ Time to brighten your surroundings and nothing will work as, a salary for the associate munic­ and the cost of doing so shall be gineers, the Lansing Executive gul Corp. was announced last well as a fresh coat of paint. Paint one room or your whole ipal judge, ending amonth's-long Charter ... charged to the property owner. Industrial Club and the Clinton week by principals of the two house, inside and outside. We have the paint for any job! discussion of that question by the The city resolved several months County Country Club. A graduate companies. commission. The salary will be (Continued from Page 1-A) ago, however, to absorb 50 per of Adams Township High School James 0. Wright, president of $200 a month. Attorney Fred brought up to the public, vote in cent of the cost of trees removed at Lovett, Pa., he attended Cass Federal-Mogul, said the acquisi­ Lewis was appointed to the po- years to come. There are many from public property. Tech, a tool and die school In tion is expected to become ef­ sitin of associate municipal sections of the charter that need Many property owners have al­ Detroit, for four years. He has fective shortly after Federal- judge. to be changed, Mayor Coletta ready received such notices, but also taken a manufacturing man­ Mogul's annual meeting April 25, SUPER said. City Manager Greer pointed out agement course at Michigan State •Lewis is serving In that capac­ when shareholders will be asked ity now in the absense of Munic­ that these aro the 200 trees mark­ University and attended a plant to authorize an issuance of con­ ipal Judge Alba Wert. Wert re­ "FOR THE PAST SEVERAL ed as the "worst" of some 1,600 personnel management seminar vertible preferred stock for this cently started a three-month va­ months the city attorney, city dead trees on city property in in Detroit sponsored by Harvard purchase and for use in possible SAT-N HUE manager and the city commission St. Johns. The 200 are In the pro­ University. cation. future acquisitions. have been studying the various cess of being removed now for Mrs Juanita O'Leary appeared Ricker and his wife Lillian live National Grinding Wheel pro­ before the commission and ques­ provisions of the city charter to $28 each. duces a diversified line of abra­ determine what sections should at 501 E. Sturgls 'Street in St. tioned why her water main con­ Greer said that when the con­ Johns. They have three children, sive grinding wheels and diamond, LATEX struction assessment had not be changed or amended in order tractor has submitted his bill to cutting wheels for a variety of to bring the charter up to date. Mrs Jacqueline Dollar of Cali­ been reduced in a manner similar the city, the city will send a blU fornia, Mrs Carol Beechler of Industrial applications. Current $ to the. recent assessment on Lin­ "During the • course of this for $15 to the property owners annual sales are at the rate of study," the mayor continued, "it St. Johns and Jon, a senior at GAL. coln and Swegles streets.'(Mrs affected. Bills not paid will be Rodney B. Wilson High School. approximately $9 million.. It is 5.65 O'Leary's assessment was for a was discovered that many sec­ placed on a special assessment a privately held company found­ A superior latex interior wall finish for finest deco­ long installation alongSouthScott tions appear to be in conflict with roll. ed In 1910. It employs more rating on .walls, piaster, ceilings, wallpaper, etc. state laws and would have to be _ T Boy Scouts camp ^ than 400 at ,two plantain ..North Washes like enamel with just soap and water.'No' revised. The most important), and Tonawanda and LeRoy, N.Y.T *> the section' that would have to be out in sub-zero cold odor, fumes or lap marks/Brushes clean easily wftfi *ther assessment was ^qrj ^ new Fowler park ... _, U*t soap and water. Covers from 450 sq. ft. defending water main, which could be said revised immediately, w?s the -£«ia -,-u «. section on taxation^" BATH — Nineteen boys from on surface. Ready mixed decorator colors. to increase the value of her prop­ (Continued from Page 1-A) Boy Scout Troop 67 of Bath , To some living things, the in­ erty. TheassessmentsonLincoln While the commission has ex­ "No.vWe are creating a newrec- camped outside over the week­ visible cold of winter is- benefi­ ^SUPREME SATIN-GLOW, and Swegles were for replace­ pressed a- desire for changes in reatlon area." c end, despite sub-zero temper­ cial. Certain seeds must go the charter for a number of Produces a rich, semi-gloss finish.' ment mains, which did not in­ The park plans .were drawn by atures. The boys, age 12 to 15, through a cold period before they Ideal for kitchens, baths, woodwork', crease the value of the property, years, the study which turned up pitched their camp on the Robert will germinate. Like seeds, some the "doubt" about city taxation' Carl Koenigsknecht, a member etc. High Hiding ability, extra scrub- he said. of the Fowler Jaycees. The plan Bulock farm on Chandler Road a insect eggs also require exposure bable. Matches Super Sat-N-Hue. was actually started in late Oc­ mile south of the Looking Glass to cold before they will hatch. tober 1965. At its Oct. 19, 1965, is flexible, with thought given to Qt. Supreme Sdtin-Glow 2.19 MRS O'LEARY further-ques­ later development that might be River. The 24 hours in their camp Walking stick eggs go through meeting the commission re­ was a phase of earning a scout two winters in Michigan before tion the amount of her assessment ceived a letter from the senior undertaken. LATEX FINISH • saying it was more than the total The initial stage calls for fill­ badge. hatching. Scrubbable, odorless, easy to use. Ap­ government class at Rodney B. muiof project along Scott Road cost. Wilson High School questioning ing and grading the site. The sur­ ply with roI|er, brush or spray. Ideal mjSEPAlM After later checking it out, City vey job will be performed by a Interior coating for new or previous painted many of the sections of the char­ i M tail **» Mildew fie^ Manager Greer said this was not few of the Jaycees. It is felt that IT PAYS TO SHOP AT surfaces. Satin finish. ttuin ter. The matter was turned over the. case. to the city attorney for study, and If extensive filling Is required, the village water pumping station Roy L. Wilcox of 702 N. Lan­ it was Reed who brought the mil- lage limitation matter-to the on the property will have to be sing wrote to the commission re­ raised,, and a new structure built questing enforcement of an ordin­ commission's attention! N to house .the pump. -- Financing of the project will be through the use of village funds and private and group donations., CLINTON COUNTY ZONING "There is a real jieed for a public park in town," Dr Macun­ ovich said,warecreationareafor COMMISSION MEETING the young people and the older folks." He expressed a firm de­ sire, along with that of the village The Clinton County Zoning Commission council and the Jaycees,, to fill O will hold a regular meeting on v. that need. Bath steel plant PAINT ROLLER MASKING THURSDAY MARCH 16,1967 NEW SPRING TAPE 4' PLATFORM LADDER! and TRAY at 8 p.m. in the, Circuit Courtroom in* the destroyed in fire COATS A Aluminum with riveted construe- j Tru-Test Supreme set 7" rayon Keeps paint off. windows, walls tion makes a safe, sturdy ladder-, j roller. Tray has deep wells for Makes painting easier, easier ' Courthouse in St. Johns, Michigan. Any ' BATH — A 50-gallon drum of Slip-resistant safety treads.' 1 maximum holding and rolling. cleanup too. %" wide tf 60-yds. paint thinner fed a fire which ' persons having interests jn the 'county, or destroyed the Lee RaySteel Fab­ Sizes 2-6x their duly appointedVepresentatives, will be ricating Co. on Walnut Street in 7-14 heard relative to any matters that should Bath last Wednesday afternoon. SEE OUR COMPLETE LINE OF PAINTING ACCESSORIES!!! Don Ferguson of Lansing, own­ properly come before the Zoning Commis­ er of the plant, told Bath Fire sion, *' Chief Abbot Nelson the fire start­ IT ed when a spark from a welding torch ignited.palntwhlchhadbeen GERALD L WALTER spilled on .the floor. Ferguson and To an employee, Gary Hasbenbank, HARDWARE INC. Clinton County Zoning Adm. escaped without Injury. 45-1 Destroyed in the fwo-hour 14.98 ST. JOHNS 224-3271 blaze were all the office records. J t Thursday, March 2, 1967 CLINTON COUNTY NEWS, St, Johns, Michigan PaQe 3 A Meet Mrs Yntema* Greenbush native i S cmiunff Still contributing at age 100! ALWAYIMAVSC FIRSCIDCT nilAIITQUALITVY ™ ST. JOHNS * Mrs Mary Loomis Yntema, a native of Greenbush Town­ scrutiny. Little wonder that among them they produced ship quietly observed her 100th birthday Tuesday. She is three college valedictorians, three summa cum laudes, five presently living In Grand Rapids with her daughter at 1033 Ph. D. degrees, one S.J.D., one L.L.D., an honorary D. Sc, Madison, S. E. Summers she returns to Holland, Mich, to a C.P.A., two Sterling Yale Fellows, one National Research the old homestead she and her husband built lnl891 on Paw Fellow, and one Bryn Mawr Fellowship. Four have published Payr Drive. widely in well-known professional journals; two of the Of Yankee descent, Mary Loomis when a girl attended children are accomplished musicians. St. Johns' High School, graduating as valedictorian, and later ^taught third and fourth graders in the public schools In SU A WOMAN OF remarkable memory, Mary Yntema can Johns. still sing all the'stanzas of old songs and can recite com­ She also, at one time, interrupted her schooling to teach plete passages of poetry. Recently she recalled hqv one of part of a year In a country school near St. Johns. In that her grade-school teachers made her parse this sentence by time this meant living around with different families in Alexander Pope: the school district, two weeks here and two there, all of which was part of the teacher's pay. It was in St. Johns 'Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, that she met her future husband, Douwe Yntema, Who was As to be hated needs but to be seen; then superintendent of schools. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, v Natives of Greenbush and St. Johns may recall "the We first endure, then pity, then embrace.1* Yntema Elm" which was dedicated to him with a bronze on a boulder as marker.

MARY YNTEMA, who came from a long line of school teacher homes, has carried on the tradition In a remarkable Topical fluoride way. All six of her children have,dedicated several years to teaching, making outstanding contributions to our society. All were graduates of Hope College wher her husband, Prof. requests due Douwe Yntema, taught until his retirement in 1920. Two of her six children won international fame —Hessel, Final request and fees are now who died last year, was recognized internationally as an being accepted for the summer authority on comparative lawj Leonard, a research metal­ topical fluoride program to be lurgist now retired/won renown for pioneering in research held in Clinton County. This pro­ relating to the rare-earths group. A third son, Theodore, gram is being sponsored by the was director of two internationally recognized research Clinton County Health Depart­ boards and for nearly 20 yars served as vice president of ment in cooperation with the finance for the Ford Motor Co. MRS MARY YNTEMA Michigan Department of Health. The entire procedure consists Loomis, and she passed this on to her children. At the age THIS WEEK ONLY! THEIR COMBINED years of teaching are many. Hessel of four visits to the clinic which of 4, Mary hVd to read to an ailing mother, spelling out the will be held in the Ovid elemen­ taught law for 48 years in leading universities; Leonard words she could not pronounce. was university professor of chemistry for 22 years; Clara tary school, Holy Trinity in Fow­ Penney's reduces prices Mary's first home was a log cabin which her father pur­ ler, DeWitt elementary and taught Latin and mathematics for 43 years and is now chased on some partly cleared land 10 miles north of on quality Fashion Manor retired; Theodore was university professor of economics Swegles Street School in St. St. Johns. To clear more land, big oak trees were girdled Johns. for 25 years; Dwight, after years of government service and burned and stumps pulled. An ox team was soon re­ self-insulated draperies! in statistics and economics, has taught at Hope College placed with horses. "Leonard Loomis also taught school, ANY CHILD WHO is a pre­ PAUL A. MAPLES for 20 years, a post he still holds as head of the Depart­ was active in Sunday school and church work, was justice ment of Economics and Business Administration; and schooler (over three years), a REG. 7.98 44 REG. 8.98' 44 of the peace about 20 years, a supervisor, antya farmer. second, fifth, or eighth grader NOW NOW Chester, the youngest, has been teaching anatomy in medical Evenings in those pioneer days kept families at home, Attorney 6 pr. pr. schools of three universities. is eligible to enroll in the pro-. relying on their own interests. Leonard Loomis had a love gram. Special cases referred Keep rooms cooler in summer . . . warmer in winter! for books, so the family would gather around the stove and by the family dentist will also to practice 2 year sunfade guarantee or Penney's will replace. , A LOVE OF LEARNING was early instilled in Mary Mary's father would read the Bible, or Dickens or other be accepted. The fee for cleans­ Choose from 2 popular patterns. Decorator colors. classics, or poetry, aloud. She developed a great love for ing and four applications is $3.50 literature and other learning and encouraged, persuaded, for one child, $6 for two children 'BEDFORD* — Jaequard cotron/rayon, and criticized the schooling of her own six children, holding with Green PRESCRIPTION and $1.50 for each additional REG. 8.98, NOW 7.44 pr. up to them by example that learning is an exciting ad­ child. Paul A. Maples, 30, aDearborn Service, at venture of the mind. native, started Monday as an as­ 'ELDORADO* — Nubby rayon/colton, If you have not received the sociate ofSt.Johns attorney Tim­ REG. 7.98, NOW 6.44 necessary forms to enroll your pr. The LOWEST possible BUT MARY LOOMIS Yntema did not stop. At 70 othy M. Green. child in this program, contact Maples has a bachelor of arts price consistent with years of age, she learned to type to facilitate writing a either Mrs Luella Canfleld, RN book on the Yntema genealogy; at 84 years of age she was degree in psychology from the the highest quality or Mrs Bonnie Good at the Clin­ University of Michigan and a Juris imported high-shag pile rug named 1950 Grand Rapids Mother of the Year; at 91 her ton County .Health Department. Br PROFESSIONAL book was published. doctor degree from the Detroit PRESCRIPTION The fee and consentforms must College of Law. He was admitted Of great importance was the education of her children be returned before March 20, In *Tightly wound DEE DRUG STORE ' SERVICE and she gave every encouragement to their studies. When to practice by the Michigan State order for the application to be Bar Assn. in July 1966. He is a tubular braid they were snowbound, Mary Yjitema taught them at home. accepted. Southgate Plaza ST.JOHNS During high school and college, she gave their papers critical member of the Detroit Bar Assn. and the Michigan Bar Assn. *ldeal for any ) IT tf [lti|. WtiuEij e IMUi-tt -tftT 100*attend Cub ' During the pastsevehyear^s room in the ±*t^*\\ Maples,has been employedbyRe­ c ' Scout banquet liance Insurance Co., attaining home CONSUMER POWER HAS the position of claims supervisor 22x42 in, at Fowler in the firm's Detroit office. Maples moved to St. Johns last FOWLER-Approximately 100 Thursday with his family, and 022 persons attended the Cub Scout they are presently getting settled Blue and Gold banquet held Sun- at 701 S. Klbbee Street. He and * day, Feb. 26 at Holy Trinit,y his wife Carol have two sons, Jef- Our heaviest scatter rug. An in­ School Hall. Special guests were fry, 4, and David, 3. They are af­ 30x54 in novation in rug design. Chenille the Sisters of Holy Trinity School filiated with the First Methodist high-shag pile in oval bands of and Boy Scoutmaster Bob Arm- Church. complementing colors, in choice brustmacher. of Russet or Poppy Red. f Following the potluck dinner, The black panther is actually a achievement awards were pre­ leopard with an excess of dark sented. David Halfmann received pigment in its fur that makes its his lion badge and a gold and spots Indistinguishable. 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Suffering cuts and bruises were the drivers of the two autos, Robert W. Barnes, 42, of 16662 Webster Road,Bath,andKathIeen ECONOMY SHOE STORE consumers Power A. DeVault, 16, of R-2, Laings­ burg. According to sheriff's of­ First in Foot Fashions With Famous Brands ficers, the DeVault car came over ME-1I55142 a rise and hit the Barnes auto 121 N. Clinton Ave. St. Johns Also inOwosso and Durand PH. 224-2212 m which had stopped for a turn. Page 4 A CLINTON COUNTY NEWS, St. Johns, Michigan Thursday, March 2, 1967 Fowler's 'Round School' has interesting past (Continued from Page 1-A) Fowler, and which were copied at the beginning of the school ries, or what is today Michigan, pall each day. To do this, two To, govern the new school, a from the official book of the min­ year was $2.39." Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and children were appointed each three-member board of educa­ utes of the Round School Board . "Rec'd from 2 mills tax $15,37 a part of Minnesota, week to go to the Duffer home­ tion was elected, as was and still of Education meetings, and which "Rec'd from dog tax 1864 5.22 As is reported above, the stead and fill the pail with water is the case with all primary 'has since been destroyed in a "Rec'd from dog tax 1865 6,25 school year in the early days of from the well there. school districts in Michigan. The fire. "Direct tax one dollar per the Round School was divided in­ The children had other duties president of the board was then The occasion was the Round scholar for teacher's wages to two parts—summer and winter too, like sweeping the floor and known as the director, the sec­ School Board meeting of Sept. 3, $28.00 sessions. The summer session cleaning the desks. retary of the board was called 1866. The subject discussed was "Rec'd primary fund $10.00 began in May and ended in Au­ The first known teacher at the the moderator and the third the first director's report for the "Collected on rate bill $9.00 gust. The winter session began Round School was Carrie Khmer, member was the treasurer. Round School District as written Total $76.23 in mid-November and ended in who taught there in 1865. She and by Director Warren Stone, Sam­ "Paid out $81.02" late March, most of her successors,, besides IT WAS THE usual practice of uel Brooks was the moderator. •Balance unpaid $5;78" During the summer term, receiving money wages, received the Round School Board to meet small children and girls attended wages in the form of room and once a year, at the end of the "THERE HAS BEEN during the THE PRIMARY fund dates back the school becausethe older boys board. Since travel was so slow fiscal year, in July. past year seven months of school, to the Northwest Ordinance of were needed to work on the then, they would live-in at the The first recorded date of the three months winter school and 1787 and is still received by pri­ farms. During the winter term, surrounding homes. Round School's existenceis 1864, four months of summer school, mary school districts. It is in­ the older boys were free to go to which appears in the following for which there has been the sum terest on monies the federal gov­ school. Because of this arrange­ ^SOMETIME AFTER 1868, the excerpt taken from papers owned of $83 for teacher's wages. The ernment received when it sold ment, it was not uncommon to Round School was moved to Its by Mrs Emma Duffer Vance of amount of cash in the treasury land in the Northwest Territo- find men 21 years old going to present location on the southwest school during the winter, in some corner of French and Grange cases because there was nothing roads. Before that time, the else to do. ' structure was situated further west and south, up on a hill. ANNUAL VILLAGE ELECTION "THE OLDER BOYS would go H. C. Hale, the provider of the Mrs Emma Vance of Fowler owns this .old picture taken of a group of to school, and then they'd raise first plot of land for the school, youngsters in front" of the Roynd School northwest of Fowler. She couldn't hob," Mrs Vance, herself a 1909 owned the corner property also. identify all the youngsters, but these are some of them: At the left stand­ graduate of the School, said. Following are the minutes of Notice is hereby given that a village election will be held in the It was true. The older boys did a Round School board meeting In ing are LerHe Frank and Mrs Mae Frank Hale. Standing against the wall sometimes get out of hand; there­ 1868, at which time the decision fore it was the practice to hire in a white dress is Iva Winans Rogers, with Mrs Grace Phillips Bissell ,in was made to move the building to front of her and Mrs Myrtle Howard Messer to her left. The last girl at VILLAGE OF WESTPHALIA men-teachers for the winter ses­ a new site. sion and women to teach during the one edge of the building is Ruby Messer Roberts. The two boys at the summer. "Lebanon Sept. 5, 1868 "Meeting called to order by the the right are Orvis Messer and Lewis Murwin. .-*• Also, in the early days of the moderator, Samuel A. Brooks. County of Clinton, State of Michigan Round School, the school week lasted five and a half days, school "Reported a letter from H. M. ending at noon, Saturday. The Perrin that the present site of at school day ran from 9 a.m. until school house (sic) be null. 4 p.m. "Moved and carried that the school house (sic) be moved on In later years, the two-session the new site if purchased. year was replaced by a three- "Moved that sixty dollars be WESTPHALIA VILLAGE HALL session year — fall, winter and raised to move the school house spring. Too, the school week was (sic) and pay for the site. shortened by half a day. "Moved^ that the district pur­ on chase a lease of three-fourths of THE STUDENTS, in these ear­ an acre of land in square formed ly times, each had their duties on the northwest corner of sec­ to perform to keep the school tion twenty-nine of H. C. Hale. functioning well. "Motion carried. Meeting ad­ MONDAY, MARCH 13,1967 Each morning, they would walk journed." ' to school, some from as far as three miles away. All would bring their lunch so they wouldn't have HERSCHEL DUFFER, the for the Election of the Following Officers: to walk home an extra time. They father of Mrs Vance, later bought would pass through one of two all of the land owned by Hale. Though the Round School B6ard Alton Messer, retired Ionia police officer who now lives on R-3, PRESIDENT; CLERK; TREASURER; THREE (3) TRUSTEES, for outside doors and hang their coats inside in the entry. Then, had a1 50-year leaseon the land Ionia, brought this picture, actually an oil painting by L Messer, of on which stood the school build­ two (2) year term; and ASSESSOR. to enter the classroom, they had the old Round School House four miles north and three'-miles west o f to pass through one of two other ing, they bought the property The polls of said election will be open at 7:00 o'clock a.m. and interior doorways. from Duffer. Fowler in Lebanon Township. The building still stands, though it is not will remain open until 8:00 o'clock p.m., Eostern Standard Time. Surrounding the structure was To one side of the entry was a a big school yard. Baseball, pom­ in use. Messer said he attended the school over 60 years ago, and he Every qualified elector present and in line at the polls at the hour box of wood gotten from nearby pom-pull-away and prison goal recalls that fne late Theodore Townsend of St.^Johns was school com­ woods and chopped by the area prescribed for the closing thereof shall be allowed to vote. were just a few of the games missioner at that time. farmers. It was the teacher's job that were played. to have the stove in the class­ During the winter months, dents of the Round School as to Vance, the son of Emmery and it is part of the centennial farm room' heated for the children owned by Bernard Vance. WILMA SCHAFER when they walked in each morn­ when snow covered the ground, why it was built that way: Emma Vance and present owner ing during the cold winter. all recreationtookplaceindoors/- "The kids used to say the of the Round School. Today the Round School stands "We sort of invented our own' school was round so the teacher With the closing of thejschool, empty except for a few desks Village. Clerk : v.* -J<1 games," Mrs Bissell said. couldnft.-corner, tqem,f Mrs B,er^ ;the distrifet"vb£ed tc$pKf tfieVow^ and some machinery stored there '':->»-; 45-2 i.v THE . CHILDREN .[themselves Other- extra-curricular activ­ ;ler- .ScfiooT; District. /Emmery by the present owner. The school had the job of filling..the water flar.d.yance, wife ,of the present ities were the enactment of holi­ owner,, said. iiyancy then-bough the school and • is silent'but not forgotten. Too day plays by the students. All good things, must*come.to the land his father-in-law had many memories are stored there co BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S At Christmas time, a Christ­ an end, so the doors on the Round sold so many years before. Today for that to happen. mas tree beautified the class­ School were closed for the last room. It' was kept aglow with time in 1942. lighted candles that were fas­ V tened to the branches. Though MRS EMMA VANCE was di­ ' that may have been hazardous, rector then, having inherited the disaster was a stranger to the job from her husband, Emmery, Round School. who had held the position for 12 WEEKEND SPECIAL years. The teacher in 1942 was ONLY ONCE WAS the building Mrs Bessy Bell. scarred. A cupola that had adorn­ . The eighth grade that was WE'LL MIX ANY COLOR YOU WANT ed the roof was destroyed by fire graduated that year was com­ when the stove pipe that passed posed of three people — Agnes No matter whatyou're plan­ £nin g to paint we have the through it burned out. The roof Schafer, Jim Hayde^n and Bernard 11, 1964 Chevrolet Greenbrier, two- was fixed, but the cupola was right Sherwin-Williams never replaced. paint you need ... in the tone, 6-cyIincler engine, stand­ .Through the years, the school loveliest colors you've ever went through major renovations. seen! We'll mix your color ard transmission and 3 seats.. The big stove in the middle of choice accurately on our the schoolroom, that never heat­ Colormeter while you,wait. ed the room adequately anyway, was removed, andacoal and wood furnace was Installed at one end of the room. The big.wooden, two-seater HEATHMANS desks, with years and-years of carved initials in them, were also PAINT SERVICE CENTER gotten rid of. In their place were put one-seater desks that now, Downtown St. Johns Phone 224-3337 1966 OLDSMOBILE Delta 88 2-door hardtop with 8-cylinder. engine, 4-speed trans- tt0jlttC instead of circling the room, mission, power steering, power brakes and radio $2495 faced in one direction toward the * teacher's desk. GO CLASSIFIED 1965 OLDSMOBILE Dynamic 88 4-door hardtop with 8-cylinder engine, automatic 1---- Not only did the building change, but every year the faces transmission, power steering, power brakes and radio $1950 changed also. 1965 CHEVROLET Impala convertible. Standard transmission, 8-cylinder engine, ' - A10ft MRS NINA Pheil Waldron, for­ So bright... beautiful... practical... radio. Low mileage ,-, r $1895 mer principal at Fowler High School, was both a student and a . 1964 OLDSMOBILE Super 88 4-door hardtop. Equipped with 8-cylinder engine, -,-.-- teacher at the Round School. She automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and radio $1695 entered first grade there in 1909, and in 1917 was graduated from BORON'S 1964 VOLKSWAGEN 2-door ;,....'. ,'. < , $ 995 the eighth grade. Mrs Waldron spent the years of 1921-1923'as 1963 CHEVROLET BelAlr 4-door sedan with 6-dylinder engine, automatic trans- , a teacher at her alma mater. drip-dry novelty curtains! mission and radio : $ 950 Donald J. Smith, currently su- , perlntendent of public schools in 1963 OLDSMOBILE Dynamic 88 4-door hardtop. Has power steering, power -.,»-- Fowler, also taught at the Round School. His time there was brief, brakes, radio and 8-cylinder engine ,„ , v. ,...„. $1295 teaching there in the 1938-39 For today's new beautiful homes . . school year. tiers and valances of Dacron-Nenon 1963 CHEVROLET station wagon. Equipment included—standard transmission, Commenting on the quality of or Avrll - Dacron gives that special radio and 6-cylinder engine > , $ 995 education at the Round School, touch of elegance. Long wearing, Mrs Waldron said: * easy to wash, .quick drying .\. will 1962 CHEVROLET Biscayne 2-door sedan. Economical 6-cylinder engine, stand- . not shrink . .. "little or no ironing", ard transmission and radio , , , ..^ ._. $ 695 "THEY \THE, STUDENTS) got merely "Drip Dry" 'n hang. Lovely a real good education there. The whites and pastels or colored coin 1964 CHEVROLET &-ton Pleetslde pickup. Custom cab, 6-cylinder engine and *,„_ students knew their multiplica­ dots or multi-figures. Extra full standard transmission , , -.. $1395 tion tables forwards and back­ cut with generous hems. See these wards, and they didn't .stop at 12 new Spring Beauties todayl either; they went up into the 20's. They even sang their multiplica­ tion tables. Everyone knew the name of each state and capital in the country." Bee's Chevrolet & Oldsmobile, Inc. Mrs Waldron also, said she be­ lieved the reason the school was , built octagonally was because it was done that way then; it was- ^$>- SHOWROOM: ST. JOHNS USED CAR LOT: '<&' * just a form of colonial archi­ E. F. BORON CO. tecture. 110 W. Higham-Phone 224-2345 South US-27-Phone 224-3325 . There is also a more popular 122 N. Clinton ST. JOHNS Phone 224-7423 theory among the former stu- Thursday, March 2, 1967 CLINTON COUNTY NEWS, St. Johns, Michigan. Page 5 j\

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