Cnlnnta Cnumr VOL 45 COLOMA, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1944. NO. 11 Yanks Hungry; Nazis Well Fed! Four Men Arrested Welcome Was Extended Methodists to Hold Captured Airman Tells Story! For Robbing Farms To School Teachers Annual Ingathering All Came From Kentucky and Did a Churches Joined With P. T. A. in Event Will Take Place Thursday Evening, October 19th. Contrast to Local Prison Camp! Big Business. Pleasant Event on Tuesday Eve- The ingathering sale sponsored an- Michigan's popular concepts of fish should bridge this gap by construc- Four men, all of whom came ning. ^ nually for the past five years by conservatlon and northern resort ting high-class, attractive lodges and (By Don F. Cochrant) from Central City, Ky., (vere ar- Members of the Coloma Parent some division of the local Methodist hotels are headed for radical changes then leasing them to private oper- rested Monday night by Deputy church takes on even larger propor- during post-war years. Fishermen ators, subject to regulations safe- Sheriff William Pugh and State Po- Teacher Association, representatives tions this year, as the entire church are going to argue long and ardently guarding the interests of the public." Feeding War Prisoners | army beds arranged in long rows lice officers and jailed on charges of of the Congregational and Methodist unites In the project and hope to the merits of these recommendations on both the main floor and balcony looting more than a dozen southwes- churches and school faculty members net a tidy sum toward the anticipat- which come from the Institute for Home at last after a year in Ger- | of floral hall. The American officers tern Michigan farms over a period of united on Tuesday evening In ex- ed purchase of their parsonage. An Fisheries Research at Ann Arbor, a man prison camps, T-Sgt. Harold j three months. tending a welcome to the three new That the Upper Peninsula must and guards sleep on cots in army evening of fun and entertainment Is division of the Michigan department possess better tourist facilities if it Sheahan, 35-year old Chicagoan, re- | ladies on the teaching staff—Mrs. W. tents. The prisoners have their own Those under arrest are: Manuel planned in addition to the auction of conservation: expects to get and to retain tourist lates a vivid tale of his experiences. flower beds, games and recreational Stewart, 23, Bennie Walker, 29, and L. Alwood, Mrs. Julia Stewart and sale of varied produce which will Captured when his bomber was shot | Open all lakes, except trout wat- business is the firm conviction held facilities. There is no space left John Edge, 29. The youngest Stew- Miss Edna Gregg.- About fifty peo- be sent In. Probably the sale will ers, to year-round fishing. Main- by Woodfill whose experience in down, he has now been repatriated for such diversions for the guards. art is on parole from the Pendelton, ple" attended the gathering. include fruit and vegetables, farm because of injuries sustained in the tain a closed season for only bass, hotel operation extends over a quar- The Germans have their shower Indiana, reformatory, and Walker is The program included two vocal produce, baked goods, sewing and plane crash that rendered him unfit northern pike, walleyes and trout. ter of a century. State-owned ho- facilities under the grandstand. The on parole from a Kentucky prison. solos by Miss Nancy Wright and two many other articles which will be Any of the first three fish, which tels at the Porcupines, Tahquamenon for further combat duty. His is a officers and guards take their show- contributed for the event. story of good medical care, mixed According to Sheriff Hastings the piano solos by Elwood Geisler, Rev. are predatory In their food habits, Falls and perhapss Glen lake would ers In the sheep sheds. The Ger- men have been making trips be- George Elliott, pastor of the Metho- Thursday evening, October 19th, are to be returned to the lake If do more to boost Michigan's tourist kindness and cruelty, reasonable mans have erected a platform on dist church, spoke on the subject, has been set for the sale and every- camp privileges—and a starvation tween here and Kentucky about caught during the closed season. Re- business than a substantial amount the race track in front of the grand- once each month with loads of fruit "The Greatness Complex," building one Is invited to attend and share the move the size limit on all fish, but of promotional ballyhoo. This sen- diet. It is the latter that we shall stand where they stage boxing bouts into his theme the thought that true fun as well as buy the things offered. discuss in its contrast to American and the articles stolen from various retain the present rationing system timent, expressed by the Mackinac and other amusements. Admission farms. greatness lies in character and the Anyone wishing to contribute may of daily limits. treatment of German prisoners. ifland hotel proprietor, has found to the grandstand Is free for the Their arrests was brought about building of character should be the call Howard Wooley, Kendall Wil- • • • warm approval among other hotel To quote Sgt. Sheahan's comment prisoners; no others allowed. motive of the home, the church and cox or any member of the church. • • • after Tom J. Daly, who lives on men. It is significant also that the on food; "If the Germans had to live Napier avenue, near Sister Lakes, the school. The program was In- The program will begin at about These proposals, revolutionary as state conservation department direc- on the food they gave us prisoners 7:45 p. m. • they are to the traditional thinking They Call Us "Soft" but In Berrien county, reported the troduced by Mrs. LeRoy Beach, who tor, P. J. Hoffmaster, Is friendly and of war, the war would have been theft of two batteries, four lights extended greetings to faculty mem- V of the average sportsman, were sympathetic to this solution. over long ago. They would have If these German prisoners have and two tires also taken from the bers and all others present. voiced by Dr. Albert S. Hazzard, di- starved to death. For breakfast they rector of the Institute for Fisheries These two trends—scientific re- been uncomfortable or hungry at the tractor, tools and gasoline coupons. A short business session preceded search Into fish conservation and gave us a kind of tea made from Hartford camp It Is their fault. It Deputy Pugh and the State Police the program with Mrs. Howard SATURDAY IS LAST DAY Research, at the fall conference of the bark of a tree. We finally asked the Michigan Outdoor Writers asso- state ownership of key resort hotels was their fault when they became obtained footprints and tire marks at Wooley presiding. It was voted to at state owned scenic spots—are due for just plain hot water. At noon unruly and were placed on bread the Daly farm which they traced to send Christmas cards to ail boys in ciation at Mackinac Island. Before we got barley soup, nothing but hot FOR OVERSEAS MAILING you begin to fume and cuss, consider to receive increasing favor during and water for several days—until Paul Pelton's store at Napier and the service who have attended the the post-war years in Michigan. They water and darned little barley. At they were again ready to co-operate. M-140. Pelton Informed the officers Coloma school. Parents of such boys the reasons behind them. They rep- night we got about four potatoes a resent scientific fact-finding, not have a common objective: Making Talk with the camp personnel, that two southerners In his store had are urged to send the addresses of Michigan's recreational resources man and once in a while some sau- from Capt. Homer Bowersock in acted suspicious and reported that their sons to the school office or to Make Sure That Your Packages for guess-work. They reflect the efforts sage or liverwurst. And turnips and and thinking of specialists, such as available to more people. To this command to the G. I. Joe who stands they lived in a shack on the Julius Mrs. Robert Faulkner. As a project Overseas Men are In by That Time. extent, they share a purpose that is rutabagas—I never want to see an- guard, and you will be told that Wendzel farm a half mile north. Af- for the association it was voted to Dr. Hazzard, over a period of 15 to October 15th has been set as the 25 years. The evolution of the con- grounded in American democracy It- other as long as I live." America Is abiding the rules, that ter obtaining a search warrant the assist In the purchase of stage equip- self. •0 0 9 final date for the mailing of Christ- servation movement in Michigan be- they are giving the Germans no ex- officers said they found the articles ment. Plans were made for a penny V cuse-or justification for mistreating stolen from the Daly farm ^t the mas packages to members of the gan in the 1870's when depletion of Red Cross Saves Lives supper to be served during this armed forces who are overseas, but American boys who fall Into their shack and arrested the four men. month. The dining room was pret- our timber resources and failure of They also recovered 47 crates of ap- as the 15th falls on Sunday, the pioneer farmers to utilize cut-over CAST IS CHOSEN FOR "The only thing that kept us alive hands.