Youth in Bizarre Millington Bank Hold-Up Grid Coach Bifoss Fired by Board
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Youth in bizarre Millington bank hold-up Quickly J TY CHRONICLE nabbed in CASS CITY, MICHIGAN-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1969 SECTION A EIGHTEEN PAGES Otisville An attempted robbery on the Millington branch of the Frank-1 enmuth State Bank failed Tues- day night at 10:00 p.m. when a Grid coach Bifoss local suspect, Glen Keith and. fled. ij No money was stolen. i Bank officials were transfer- ring funds from the trunk of an fired by board automobile when Bowers al- legedly put a gun to the head of one of the two officials. After meeting in a closed return to Cass City to teach if program would require money The suspect forced the of- door parley Monday night fol- he desires and can also coach and additional time allotments ficials into the bank. When they lowing the regular meeting open Junior Varsity and other teams. for the instructor. reached the furnace room, the to the press and public, the Bifoss said that the new coach Basically, the plans call for: heavy illumination allowed the Cass City School Board in a will take over a team that loses bank officials to recognize the unanimous vote fired John only five regulars and will be • The establishment of land assailant and he fled without Bifoss as head football coach in a position to move up the laboratories with experimental the money. at the school. Thumb B Conference standings. plots. State troopers equipped with Bifoss refused to take the In the open meeting of the ® A small nursery for practi- tracking dogs, discovered the easy way out and resign. I board there was little business cal experience in ornamental suspect lying on the ground was asked to resign, he said, other than routine affairs. shrubs and experimental sod near M-51 in Otisville. He is but I would have known and so At the request of the superin- plots. reported to live with his par- would have my kids that it tendent, Lyle Clarke, vocational ents in Otisville at 127 1/2 really wasn't so. director, attended the meeting • Ornamental horticulture Park. I feel, he continued, that I and an attempt was made to course added to the curriculum. Millington Police Chief Sam did the best possible job with change the vocational agri- Dell said the suspect was to H Nature trail established in be arraigned Wednesday. He the material that was at my culture course. the woods next to the school. disposal. I gave my all and Five recommendations of the said he has a past criminal feel that I was doing my job. State Department of Education Board members expressed record and was believed to be I was fired because I wasn't were revealed to the board and interest in reviewing the pro- mentally disturbed. winning, I guess. Cass City's Clarke was asked to comment gram. Clarke was asked to study Bank vice-president Holland 1968 football record was one on them. the suggestions and then report Lee said FBI agents were ex- win and one tie in nine games. He told the board that he at the next board meeting with amining the ease to determine Coach Bifoss isn't sure just hadn't seen the recommenda- his recommendations concern- FBI jurisdiction in the case. what his future plans will be tions before coming to the meet- ing the proposals. If the suspect violated the except that he plans to continue ing and was not in a position federal bank robbery statute the coaching. to comment. SUMMER BAND PROGRAM FBI w411 arraign the suspect Whether or not it will be at He said that implementing the in federal court. If not, the Cass City will depend on the The board approved a five Tuscola County Sheriff's De- availability of coaching posi- or six week summer band pro- partment will arraign the sus- tions at other schools. Bifoss Aleksink safe gram at'a cost of $100 per week pect. is a tenure teacher and can for 25 hours of instruction from Band Director William Fergu- MACRAE ROBBERY after emergency son. For the second time in two Whether the parents, the weeks vandals broke into the school or both parents and office of Dr. K. I. MacRae on plane landing school will pay the cost will Church Street in Cass City. not be determined until after Nothing was reported missing "I was flying along and all of the election for extra operat- from the office after the most a sudden it quit! It's really ing millage. recent breaking and entering happening!", thought Daniel The school is still paying Thursday. Aleksink, 33-year-old Cass bills connected with the con- "It was a different group," City student pilot, when his struction of the high school. said Cass City Police Chief single engine plane began to The district is holding $20,- Carl Palmateer, "that broke balk. 000 final payment to the gen- into Dr. MacRae's the second "It died right down to eral contractor until a retain- time." nothing," he said. Aleksink was ing wall is okayed and until Palmateer reasoned if it had at 2,000 feet. Alone. "It was the floor of the balcony of the been the first group entering a sort of a scary feeling," he gym is sanded level. second time, they would not said. .While the general contractor have taken time to search the Alone with a balky, useless waits, Da vane y Plumbing and desk drawer. "They would have engine. It was Friday, Feb. 7, Heating will receive $414.31 known there weren't any pills at 5:30 p.m. and he was four extra, the board decided, for A MIGHTY PRETTY VALENTINE ... we mean the purebred Boxer puppies, in the desk." miles inland from Saginaw Bay the installation of three fire of course. One of these pups is sure to go big with that certain someone who Palmateer said the violators and headed north from Tri-City dampeners in the ventilation were "probably local youths and Airport. As he neared the earth, system not in the original has everything. For these are not run of the mill canines, but registered Boxers friends of the first group." They his radio conked out. specifications. worth over $125 each knew what they were after, he JOHN BIFOSS Between an idling prop and OPEN HOUSE 0 said. Money was bypassed both his ability to glide the single Holding the prizes is Brenda Wagner, 17, a senior at Cass City High School, times. engine craft using calculations What will probably be the Palmateer said the evidence based on a "glide ratio," he opening blast in the publicity She is the daughter of the Fred Wagners of Cass City. coming from the Lansing crime brought the craft to smooth Concluded on page 4 Concluded on page 4 FROM THE landing. A smiling, happy Daniel Aleksink opened the cockpit door and got out. Aleksink doesn't yet nave Businessmen optimistic litor's Comer his pilot's license for com- mercial flying. With 45 hours The gavel sounded for the of flying, he is in training final time Thursday and the with Air Flite, his air school. last traces of a once thriving School representatives praised Kingston Enterprise: no exposes, no worries business dedicated to public him saying he did "a fine job service became a building for of handling the situation." Aleksink hasn't yet deter- In today's high cost labor are my friends, she says simply. Kingstonites are also proud Dorothy Hudson, a sister, is sale. market there are very few of Kingston Krome, a light in- the only other full time staff The personal property of the mined what malfunctioned in Mrs. Caswell is in the news- the engine. "It was definitely newspapers in communities The Enterprise goes on today as much dustrial plant hiring 30 per- member. Their father, 72- Cass City Hospital went on the paper business because "you year-old Leland Ensign, tinkers a starvation of fuel," he said. with 456 persons and fewer yet have to make a living and you sons, and of the new high school auction block to satisfy credi- He reported it was about 25 which are owned and operated as it has throughout its 55 years of service presently under construction. with the machinery and Art tors. by a woman. might just as well make it in Caswell, 19, lends a hand when In a span covering 40 years, degrees at the time. your own home town." to Kingston,, Asked if he had second We passed a $1 1/4 million home from Central Michigan the hospital had cared for the An exception is the Kings- bond issue on the first try for University. thoughts about flying, he said, ton Enterprise, published by Making a living in a paper as needs of generations of Cass small as the Enterprise means worried. She says that the paper Most businessmen in the our school, they are quick to City area families. "I love flying. safer than Mrs. Marguerite Caswell who remind visitors to the com- The Enterprise goes on to- driving . only way to go" that you do most of the work hasn't changed too much since community regard the trend to- day much as it has throughout Thursday afternoon and Fri- has been at the helm of the 550 yourself and depend heavily on she took over a decade ago. wards the demand by city munity. day trucks and cars carted away (to your airfield that is). circulation weekly for a decade.