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WEATHER ' :• <4 . Min. Max. Frtclp. May 5 ‘to e r 0.00 . May 6 40, 78 0.72' ^rl<Juy. May 7 ... 35 40' 1.70 ;$Vt\U'<1ay. nta y g , 45 70 turn ■ Sunday, May D .. 50 79 0.00 ‘M on da y> M a y 10 . limn 53 72 0.00 ATUesduy. May 11 . m m h i 52 72 0.02 ONE HUNDRED-SIXTH YEAR—No. 48 16 Pages This Week CIIELSEA, MICHIGAN, THUflSDAY, MAY 18, 1976 15c per copy SUBSCRIPTION: $6.00 PER YEAR an W eek Fire Destroys Barn on Features Annual L. HPl rinkle• 11 T\Dairy • TT^r arm Within' nine minutes of the on the farm. It apparently es remaining barns will be used in Mayor Exchange call received at 2:40 p.m, last caped harm from the fire but stead. Saturday afternoon, “every truck tests have been taken to assure On Tuesday following the fire, that rolls oh a, fire,” was on the its quality, according to Mrs. the Trinkles.Were greeted with ap Chelsea’s participation in Mich* Coin, At . 11:30 p.m. the group scene at the Charles W, Trinkle Trinkle. proximately 15’ neighbors and igan Week Celebrations have will tour the Chelsea'Medical Cen dairy farm,Mn Lima township. T The main barn had been sched friends who ■ arrived to • restore ter where they will lunch in the According to Chelsea volunteer uled to hold an annual barn bchh limited this year to1, the cafeteria. A tour of Jiffy Mixes electric power in the remaining celebration of Mayor’s Exchange Larry Adams, Chelsea, firefighters dance for. area residents June 19. barns and to raise a new roof and' a general tour of the vil joined departments from Pittsfield, Mrs. Trinkle said one of the two on the milking parlor. JDdy which Will be held Here next lage • are: also' included on the Manchester and Dexter to battle Mbiiday, May 17. ' ' ' j ;he blaze which engulfed four ^ Village’president Don Wood, hjs P/ior to dining, at. Gilbert’s in buildings 6n the' Trinkle property ■ wife,, arid Fritz Weber and his Jackson .with the Chelsea cfelC- at 9631 Trinkle Rd. Wife wilt travel to Allegan near gaUon, the group from’ Allegan The fire o f ' unknown origin ■ Kalamazoo, while! Allegan Mayor will be hosted in the James (as of Wednesday morning) . de ^ Shapes Sddpgic, his "Wife and Al Schardein home for cocktails. , stroyed the .main barn on the legan officials; will arrive in Chel- Participating in the exchange property, a silo, an adjacent ma seh at 10 a.pr. y} will' be council members Bortonj sonry barn and burned the, upper .An eventful day has’ been plan-. Schardein, Dave Rowe; W a 11 e r story off a barn housing the ' he’d for the Allegan5 visitors, be- BrOwn, Sam Johnson, Bob Schafer, milking parlor. Thirteen calves gihning With a welcome coffee sjt and their wives; Wallace W o o d, DESOLATE TO THE-EYI3: Desolate is per ever the Trinkle property was all but desolate died in the blaze and another cow the home. ;of the Richard Bortons. Fire Chief Jim Gaken, Police haps the best word to describe this view of the Tuesday afternoon as( friends, neighbors and work Suffered smoke inhalation and had . Chelsea Bicentennial General celq- Chief George Meranuck, and their Charles W. Trinkle property taken Saturday about men sWariued over the buildings restoring electric to be destroyed. The rest of the * brat ion chairman Dick • Harvey wives, village department heads three hours after fire started which destroyed the power to tiie remaining buildings and raising a Trinkle 160-covv dairy herd wak .will be on hand to present the Fred Petscii, Melvin L e a'c h, main barn, a silo, adjacent masonry building and new roof on the milking parlor so that production saved. Mayor with a; Chelsea Bicentennial Richard, Harvey and Harold Bable. Volunteers from all four depart burned the top story off the milking parlor. How on tho dairy farm could continue. ments battled the blaze for four v * . <■ '< „ , % , ; hours at one. of Washtenaw coun- <4 1 f v- S'^ , s' ' % ’ * < * * . ’ ✓ * m' '• ’ % l f < \ f > , M -f 1 've • <v s' I /!<' iy’s largest dairy farms. ' > -*■ > . ' <, < - s ’ < j *y ‘ ’ ' ' * Workmen began trying to re -A A - ' - « i ' i ' '•-f' 1b4m - • t Z ,'i’• ‘ \ /.v< «V store the dairy equipment even before the firemen had drained their hoses. Trinkle’s 2,500-acre operation produces about two tons of milk daily for the Wilson Dairy in Detroit. The Chelsea High .School track Northville, Pickney and Jackson One day’s production was being team defeated Milan, .79*53, in a Northwest. held in storage in -a bulk tank dual; meet held Tuesday, May Chelsea will close out its home 11 on the home track. The win dual meet schedule next Tues ning of 'all three ; relay -events' day, May 18 against Saline., This Vault, 100- and; 220-yard, dashes meet-will start' at 4:301 p;m7 , were the deciding factors in the Winners and Chelsea placers in win. 7 -7. '77’7 . ■; the Chelsea-Milan meet were as O11 Teacher Once again the scoring was follyws. led by Howard Salyer, who -com-, Shot Put: 1st, Fred Peterson ing off of a sprained ankle; led /(■M) ’ 48’2l’-; 2nd, • Mark Smyth; Re-Scheduled off on the "winning 880-yd,‘ relay team and Won • both; dashfes.Phil The public hearing concerning Frame,, rah a ‘ strong two njile the recommendation not to re-hire, Chelsea High school c o d n s e 1 0 r race /Winrii,ng in IQ: 27.’ i ; George Jjergmon has been rer ; ■' ■ t he^f'adk'^Wam ’^b’’v FaVs;- ‘met 'sbbllr Ttyoft' "List Thof&Hty hut an .all 'day rain forced cap-' L<5hg‘ Jum|): Tst,' Mike Lbve (M),' Room >at .Chelsea High school.; cellation apdV the 'meet will he 8’DA”; 2nd,' JoiuVCollins;. 18’i/2”. The postponement action was of run on Monday, May 24 at South High Jump: 1st, Phil Slaulter ficially takeh at the board’s Mon Lyon. For the. remainder of tjhis, (M) 5’8”; : 2nd, Randy Sweeny, day night meeting, May 10. week Dexter will be the Bull 5’8”; 3rd, Greg Reed, 5’4”. School Board officials said the dogs’ opponent on Thursday. This 880 Relay:' lsty Chelsea (Howard DEBBIE LEABU is a new face at McKune Memorial Library. meeting was postponed because Mrs. Leabii joined the library’s staff one month ago as head li meet will be run as a double Salyer, Matt Fisher, Greg Reed, attorneys could not be present. meet with' both girls and boys Dennis Baur) 1:38.2. brarian. She replaces Mrs. Kathleen Bernath who died last August. teams c o m p e ting in separate Bergman, who has served in the 880-Yd. Run:. 1st, Jim Dutton RESTORING POWER: Before volunteer fire Heller, all professional electricians, were on the capacity of counselor at Chelsea •meets. It will start at 4 p.m.. (M) 2:04.4; 2nd, Morris Johnson, men had roiled up their hoses, neighbors, friends job restoring electrical power so the milking process Saturday, the team will ; take 2:10.1; 3rd,; Todd Weber, 2:11.4. High school from September 1958 part in the Cardinal Relays’ at i20-Yd High Hurdles: 1st, An- and professional servicemen were on the scene help started about 6:30 p.m. In the foreground, remains to June 1962, returning in the New Head Librarian Michigan Center, This meet is dersori (M) : 17.1; 2nd, Randy ing get the Charles Trinkle family dairy operation of the main bairn, completely destroyed, are still fall of 1967, requested the public composed of all relays. Field event Sweeny, : 17.6. back in production,-While 160 impatient dairy cows smoldering. Thirteen calves housed in the basement hearing concerning the recommen relays will start at 12 boon, run Mile Run: 1st, 'Rich Haller, ii milled around past the usual milking time, Wal of this barn, perished in the blaze. dation that he not be re-hired. ning relays at 5 p.m. There will be, 49.9; 3rd, Dave Dawson, 4:57.2. lace VandenBosh1 and son, MavVin Salyer and Earl The recommendation was made [two sections of eight teams, each. 100-Yd. Dash; 1st, Howard Sal by CHS principal Charles Lane Chelsea, competing in Section' I, yer, : 10.5; 2nd, John Collins, :10. who said he would not reveal will. have very stiff competitors 7. the particulars of his case before There’s a new face at the school librarian and for nine from the likes of Jackson Lumen 440-Yd. Dash: . 1st, Dutton (M) Presidential the Monday night hearing. McKune Memorial Library and months she had a chance to IChristi, Holt, Mason, Lincoln, (Continued on page five) her name is Debbie Leabu. Mrs. try-out that idea on a modified Teams Leabu is new to the library basis at Huron High school in Primary Vote CHS Students by four weeks. She replaces Ann Arbor. She says she likes Mrs. Kathleen Bernath, who teenagers a lot but adds that died in August 1975, as head she enjoys the varied experience I Beach 8th Grade Band Set Tuesday Score in State librarian. of working with ail ages from With barely enough time to pre-school children to senior Beach Middle school’s boys and that Mary Stirling and Janet Oberg Michigan’s Presidential Primary Forensics Meet get acquainted, Mrs. Leabu sits citizens at McKune Library. girls track team met Tecumseh each who took second and third, Election will be- held Tuesday, Chelsea High school students Kim in her new offices at the li Mrs.