Top Talent Is Tradition with St. Johns High School Drama Dept
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It's SIMPLE to save INTEREST with a Clinton National SIMPLE INTEREST loan. (try it and seel) !&: Clinton County News FEBRUARYS, 1976 22 Pages-2 Sections ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN 48879 20 Cents i pic^tennial j District cage taction THE LONGEST MARRIED COUPLE, • OLDEST MAN AND WOMAN, AND THE :I opens Monday night LARGEST TREE- In Clinton County is ft a project being researched by the Clinton ft County Bicentennial Committee. If you £ The annual mayhem that comes with the winner of Bath-Perry game. Williamston have any entries for this project please g arrival of March is right on schedule and will play the winner of the Tuesday game notify Alta Reed at 487-3081, or Shirley % begins Monday night for area basketball Thursday with the championship game Karber at 224-7412. Rules for the largest >: teams. Saturday night. tree say the trunk must be measured 4Vz £: Following are locations and schedules for All games begin at 7:30 p.m. and doors feet up from the ground level. May 30, § the 6 basketball squads in Clinton County. open at 6:30. has been set as the deadline for entries. >: OVID-ELSIE AND ST. JOHNS FOWLER AT VESTABURG "FREEDOM IN AMERICA-OURg AT OVID-ELSIE Fowler takes on Vestaburg Monday night. GREATEST HERITAGE" is the title for $ Okemos will play Mason Monday night Ashley goes against Mt. Pleasant Sacred the American Legion Auxiliary essay •:• with Ovid-Elsie going against Holt Tuesday. Heart Tuesday night. contest for all pupils of junior and senior $ Corunna will play Wednesday night against the winner of the Monday game. Beal City will play the winner of the high school age. The deadline for entries j: j st Jonns Fowler-Vestaburg game Wednesday and the j„ uaw.k t mr«, V„HU uiehi» ie in x - will-take the court Thursday championship will be played Friday night. All games begin at 7:30 p.m. i a silver medal, 2nd. bronze medal, for,. The championship will be Saturday. All PEWAMO-WESTPHALIA \ both Sr. and Jr. Grades. Rules for entries :•: AT FOREST HILLS NORTHERN i can be obtained from school principals, •:• games begin at 7:30 p.m. Pewamo-Westphalia competes in district i'the public library, of by calling Mrs.$ BATH AND DEWITT cage action at Grand Rapids Forest Hills • Mishler at 224-4816. ?:| ATBATH Bath plays in the opening round when they Northern. Pairings were not drawn by press : PRESERVE YOUR FAMILY?: take on Perry Monday night. Lansing time* Tuesday. ; RECORDS-Tbe Clinton County £ Catholic Central will go against Haslett Competing in_the tournament will be : Historical Society, geneological com-$j Tuesday. Pewamo-Westphalia, Grand Rapids Forest mittee, is working on micro-filming § DeWitt plays Wednesday against the Hills Northern, Portland High, Saranac, historical documents. If you have any.*:; Comstock Park and Grandville Calvin ThriaHan (See Page 11A) § Area . "Operation Red Ball" may happenings save children's lives Two Ovid area youths escaped injury Saturday night when their car plunged into the Maple River and sank under 8-10 feet of water. The youths, Matthew Smith, 16, and Tjm Toth, 15, madeit to the road and were uninjured. Chief Homola of the Ovid Police Dept. donned MARCH 7-The Film "The Burning :': To a child his room is many things - a When firemen reach the home which has his skin diving gear to hook a line to the car so that it could be removed from the swiftly flowing Maple River. Hell" will be shown at Wayside Baptist $ place to sleep - a place to rija'y - an caught fire, they do not know whether there Church 11 miles north of St. Johns corner £ imaginary world - sometimes a' castle- are children in the home and parents may of US-27 and Roosevelt Rd., 1 mile south $ seomtimes a desert island. not be present or physically able to tell of M-57 at 6 p.m. The public is invited. % Most of all, a child's room is somewhat his firemen this information. or her own, a place to go to enjoy a secret MARCH ll-A kindergarten'round-up £ „avmnut„ February thaw was a salt saver will be held at Pewamo-Westphalia High & happinessHf",' a place of refuge in time of "OPERATION RED BALL" has solved Schopj af ,7 p.m. % parents of children :$ ™£f t thisTroblemiPaj^tSjLSimpiyTstlcjt^oiie oL JI.'--- —— '*•- r- last facf is one reSsorr behind -r- who will, be entering Pewfcmp Elemen- £ ' the red balhfon their, front door and^one on * For ski and snowmobile enthusiasts thq, .' THfi ROAD COMMISSION OBTAINS its noting' that crews have, worked all but 2 tary Kindergarten in the fall. School & "Operation Red Ball," a fire safety every window of every child's or invalid's t weekends this snow-bound season. program which has received full en 'latest thaw may have, caused heavy heafts salt from {he International Salt company in administrators, teachers, the Ionia $ room in the family. at Last year there were- approximately 40 dorsement of area firefighters who but for the Clinton County Road Com Detroit which was hauling the salt out to Coilnty health nurse and representatives •:• In the event of a fire, the firemen will now mission, the thaw couldn't have come at a communities during *the, past few snowy inches of snow that fell in the county. So far of the Clinton County Intermediate:": recognize that this program could save go directly to the front door to check for a months faster .than it could mine it. Hebner this year, the road commission has unof children's lives. * more opportune time. ficially registered 50 inches of snowfall. School District will be present. •§ red ball, and if they find one, they will im Like many other counties around the expects the thaw has enable the salt com mediately look for the corresponding state, Clinton County was running low on its pany to get* caught up on'its production. MARCH l -The MARSP will hold their •:• STATISTICS GATHERED from around bedroom windows and check to see if anyone THOUGH THE AMOUNT OF SNOW this the country reveal the sad fact that literally supply of salt. "We had about 30 tons in last'year Clinton County used between March meeting at Waldron Elementary $ is in the rooms. storage that we were saving for use on 2,000 and 2,500 tons of salt on its roads, Thus winter' sounds a bit overwhelming for this School in Fowler with a potluck dinner at £ hundreds of young lives are lost each year The Extension Study Groups in Clinton area, the cost of maintaining safe, snowless because, discovering his home on fire, a "main intersections and thoroughfares," far this winter, there have been 1,300 tons 6 p.m. Husbands are invited. If possible, $ County are making these red balls available said R.J. Hebner of the Clinton County Road of salt dumped on the roads. Hebner doesn't roads may be even more than overwhelming dress in Bicentennial costume and bring ':" child will hide in his own room, believing it to all county residents at no cost. The balls plan to order any more salt than the county to many. an antique with an explanatory note. ;•: to be the safest place. are three-inches in diameter, and are made Commission. As a result of the thaw, however, the road already has stored up, saying he will have to If Clinton C.oun$y received five inches of When a fire starts at night, of course, the of an 'adhesive-backed, weather-resistant "play it by ear" to make sure the county snowfall during' a week when roads were MARCH 5-World Day of Prayer Ob-:*: child is already there and unless the family paper. commission was able to get more supplies of servance at 1 p.m. at Lowe Church. All •£ salt stored up and are now equipped to doesn't have too much salt stored .up over already clear of snow due to a thaw, the has practiced a fire drill, ^operation EDITH They may be picked up at the County the summer. removal of this snow would cost between area churches are invited. :•: (exit drill in the home), he or she may well handle 2 storms which most likely will occur s Extension Office located at 1003 St. Oakland before spring weather is here to stay. Last year the road commission crews ?8,000 and $10,000 and would take up to two stay there and die. in St. Johns. -J spent half as many weekend plowing snow or two and one-half days for the 38 hourly as they have speht this winter, says Hebner, employees. - Top talent is tradition with St. Johns High School drama dept. You can cheer for the football The drama club has grown in drama competition and to with the other facets of student Johns students are made with team, you can go to every from U girls in the first give students an experience in activities such as sports. authenticity, exactness and yet basketball game, but one of the initiation to approximately 155 the arts. Before the basketball games, they are made economically. "winningest teams" at St. members today. "No mem "Previously, in many schools the club gives a special light And^as a result of the pain Johns High School is the drama bership, has been under 100 in Michigan, the drama show to get the team excited. staking practices of . the team. students," says Bob Roger, program was meant to get Club members announce the costume makers, the costumes They have participated in advisor to the organization.