OCTOBER 17, 1968 2 SECTIONS — 30 PAGES 15 Cents
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W -Of** *pt V Last week big week for farmer meetings stories; pictures on Page B-2 113th Year, No. 25 ST. JOHNS, MICH.-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1968 2 SECTIONS — 30 PAGES 15 Cents CLINTON COUNTY traffic deaths 2-hour parking limit, Since January 1, 1968 County adopts 24 THIS TIME LAST new meters OK'd in city YEAR: 8 City won't $1 million-plus give up A&P lot , The St. Johns City Commission spent much of their time Monday evening parking ... in a dis budget for '69 cussion of cityparklngproblems. When the meeting was over, the commission had decided to The Clinton County Board of Super buy 120 new parking meters for visors formally adopted a $1,062,900 expen Biggest :- the upper two blocks of North Clinton Avenue and attempt to ditures budget for 1969—a whopping $442,010 enforce a new two-hour parking increase over the 1968 budget adopted ayear share . limit in city parking lots. They also concurred Vtth the ago. expression of a petition, pre However, the amount is only $201,730 from taxes sented to them that they should . * " PATRICK B. KELLY not sell any portion of any city .higher than the budget of 1967. The county Clinton County will raise , parking lots. , budget for 1968 was drastically slashed be $792,739.47 of its $1,062,900 Two petitions were presented budget requirements- in 1969 by to the comm'ssioh Moriday riight> cause of financial problems, but the picture property taxesonatotalof$129,- Pat Kelly 680,021 state equalized valua ,t -£ J?oth* signed .by downtown men- is. Improyetd.fQiulJ|6.9 clerk $6j,000, prosecutlng-attor^ tion. This will be'-at the'-rate of chants and both concerning park v Tlie 19q9 budget ney $36,000, probate1 court $25,- J ing. The one regarded the sale 6.113 mills, according to a tax prosecutor 000^ county clerk $31,000, coun spread recommended by the of parking lot space and was willtbe, operated with ty treasurer $24,000, register .of" prompted by inquiries of federal board of supervisors' equaliza $792,739 in property' deeds $18,000, equalization and tion committee. r government about purchasing addressograph departments part of the south half of the park taxes, which will be The county will spread the fol St. Johns attorney Patrick B. $35,000, drain commissioner lowing amounts of tax in each of ing lot on West Waiker Street collected starting $15,000, driver's license bureau Kelly announced last week he for use by the post office. the governing units:- will be a write-in candidate for this December. $10,000, sheriff's department Bath $55,632.55, Bengal $23,- The merchants' petition said N $90,00 0,„ jail $23,000, zoning de prosecuting attorney of Clinton .they were 'opposed tb the selling 186.84, Bingham $31,748.03, The board also estimates re partment $32,900; Dallas $34,918.67, De\Vitt$145,- County in the "Nov, 5 election. of any city-owned parking lots or ceipts from county services and He'll run as a Republican. any part thereof, because said /Agriculture Extension office 084.32, Duplain $42,264.27, Ea fees in 1969 of $141,142, while $21,000, Mid-Michigan District gle $29,152.91, Essex $21,- Kelly was a write-in candidate lots are essential to the main the state income tax will yield in the primary election in August. tenance of the St. Johns central "Health Department $40,000,pro 012.51, Greenbush $26,821.55, an estimated $129,019 Inrevenue bation'office $5,000, juvenile Lebanon $14,024.43, Olive $31,4 He polled 378t votes, but the business district." They asked for the county. total was short'of the required the city commission to pass a clerk (probate) $4,700, friend of 751.91, Ovid $52,166.38, Riley; The final budget is somewhat the court $14,000, civil defense $21,466.12,' Victor $27,022.85^ number to have his name placed' resolution stating a commission higher than a $981,648 budget on the November ballot. There intent and policy to refrain from $9,000, Social Welfare Depart Watertown $66,985.14, and WesY< proposed by the board in April, ment $126,000, board of super phalia $29,758.73., n » are no names on the ballot for voluntarily selling any city- reflecting primarily the subse the office of prosecutor, and owned lot or part. visors $20,000, building and City of DeWitt residents will- quent implementation of the new grounds $27,000,- juvenile home Kelly is the only one who has board of supervisors and the new contribute $14,762.39 towar.d% announced his write-in can $32,000; county government," while'St.- THE COMMISSION declined to - A PILE OF LEAVES MAKES HAPPINESS district court, both of which be Livestock and dogs $20,000,' didacy. * take this formal step, pointing come effective Jan. X. Johns will pay $124,999.87;"lib auditor general $40,000, district county tax. , * Kelly has been practicing law out it couldn't bind future com No one had more fun last "Sunday afternoon than little Cheryl Stewart, Budget figures adopted by the In St. Johns about eight months court $50,000, county coroners Of the'total county tax, ^the* missions. But commissioners 3 year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs James Stewart. Cheryl was staying with board Monday for the various de $1,200, elections $1,500, conta after joining Harold Reed under said they now feel the same as 1 partments and accounts include: >oard has appropriated $562,-v the firm name of Reed and Kelly. her grandmother, Mrs Hazel Keyes of 301 E. Walker when the leaves grand gious -disease $18,500, county 039.47 to the contingent furid^ the merchants felt. And Commis CIRCUIT COURT and court drain at large $12,000, county He is a 1964 graduate of Michigan sioner Gerald Irrer commnnted mother had raked created an irrepressible urge to jump In. $126,000 for total welfare, $i*2J< State University with a bachelor reporter $28,500, assignment engineering department $19,000, 000 for county drain at large£ that "The post office can move revolving drain fund $20,000,4-H of arts degree, and he received down by the railroad tracks or $17,700 for miscellaneous ap-; his juris doctorate degree inlaw Fair fund $3,000, soldiers' bur propriations and $75,000 for the; some other location before I'd be ial fund $5,000,1 East Michigan from Wayne State University Law willing to sell this .(walker county road commission, ,;\ * School in 1967. New road Tourist Assn. $300, mental In acting on the appropriations; Street) lot." John Lynch joins health $12,000, bee extension He is a member of St. Joseph The other petition asked the r report Monday, the county bo£r;d* $500, Trl-County Regional Plan voted .that $50,000 of the roadt Parish In St. Johns, the Michigan commission to put a two-nour commission ning Commission $23,000, pen State Bar Assn., the American limit on free parking in city commission appropriation would' commission race sion fund $16,000, Michigan As be designated for use on thel Bar Assn. and presently is serv parking lots. The petition pointed sociation of Supervisors $1,000, ing as treasurer of the' Clinton- out that merchants did not want site OK'd John J. Lynch, agency manager partment's highest award for Tallman Road bridge over-thej for Farm Bureau Insurance, bravery. Salvation Army $300, Michigan Maple River in Lebanon Town-3 Gratiot Bar Assn. people parking in-them all day by The county board has agreed Children's Aid Society $350, . Kelly and his wife, the former making the lots parking bases to "make available" to the Clin Monday entered his name as a Lynch resigned from the police ship, and the other $25,000wolild] write-in candidate for a post on force and entered the insurance Michigan Week $100; be applied to the extension ol* Georglanna Simon of rural St. for car pools to Lansing. ton County Road Commission a 1 Johns, live at 207-1/2 S. Oakland 20-acre parcel on its county the St. John's City Commission, field in January 1961 and upon Soil conservationclerk$3,200, State Road east from Wood to The commission instructed the bringing to three the number of completion of his first year he tax allocation board $900, gen Chandler. ^, *. .< Street. They have a daughter, city manager to put two-hour farm property for a site for fu ( Meghan Simon Kelly, one year ture relocation of the road com persons seeking such a position. was cited by "Insurance Sales eral office supplies $7,000, re The money appropriated to the. limit signs in the lots under a Earlier announcementswere man" magazine as outstanding cording of births and deaths old. temporary traffic control order mission. road commission is used to ob made by Robert H. Wood and agent for Farm Bureau Insurance $150, insurance and bonds $10"",- tain matching funds from state that can be made permanent at v The site would be along US-27 John W. Hannah. f or 1961. He was appointed career 000, temporary relief (veterans) and federal levels. a later date. north of Taft Road and south of North Michigan In making his announcement, 'agency manager for Clinton- $200, Grand ' River Watershed In a related lilt of business They also discussed, and an t area of muckland. The 20 Shiawassee counties at the be Council $1,400, gasoline for seemed agreed' on, a $1 fine for Lynch told a News reporter that Monday, the board approved, a acres would run f26 feet along he has no axes to grind but Is ginning of 1964 and that district county cars $8,000, social secu overtime parking both in the lots US-27 afnd would be 1,200 feet supplementary appropriation of ablaze in entering the race because of a was expanded to include Gratiot, rity $12,000, road bridges $75,- $35,000 to the Department of'So and in metered zones, instead of deep.