Driver Training Assured; School Buildings
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Benton Harbor. or and Romiy Munro. The class A new technique in fire fighting was fatally injured in a blinding snow- will receive a commission oh all will bo put into practice by the Hart storm Tuesday nn:ht when his station subscriptions the seniors sell, both ford Fire department as a result of wa?,on was involved in a collision with new and renewal, in the next three action this week by the Village coun •> a semi-*.railer truck near the County weeks. The seniors expect to can cil and Township board. The two farm three miles cast of Hartford on vas both rural and town areas groups a p p r o v e d expenditure of -.••* US-12. during the campaign . $1.7:.8 for new hose and equipment for -•'4 Busse died at 9:4") p.m. at Commun the Fire department. ity hospital. He suffered a crushed Fire Chief Harold Walker said that i'H,h! chest, multiple rib fractures, in a special section will be built into the _4 ternal injuries and severe shock. department's newest truck to carry Officer Bernard Mcintosh, who was Primary due pre-connected lVo-inch fire hose equip Teaching of driver training at Hart called by the state police to investi ped with a fog nozzle. Local firemen ford high school next year was assur-, gate the accident until state officers were trained in use of fog with IV2- ed last night when Supt. Peter Stielf could arrive, said that Busse appar Monday for inch lines at their last fire school. stra told the Board of Education that ently lost control of his westbound Effectiveness of this technique has he had no intention of dropping it. car. The collision occurred at about been proved twice in major fires here The board named the new schools 7: 30 p.m. in the last year. Walker said. When now under construction and accepted A dense snowfall obscured vision village jobs the planned alterations are made on the gift by Waldo Tiscornia of bleach and made roads extremely slippery. the truck, they will enable the firemen ers from Edgewater park? St. Joseph.. It took state police half an hour to A quiet election campaign marked to have an inch and a half hose line The board received a letter from. reach the accident scene from Paw only by its lack of campaigning will with fog ready for instant use at any the Progressive Mothers' club asking Paw. be climaxed Monday with a village fire. The line will be supplied from that the elementally schools be nam* 3 ed after Minnie Smith and Ruth Dyer.. -. Mcintosh said that Busse's station primary election at the Tow.i hall. the 500-gallon water tank on the truck. waj'on apparently swerved to the left Equipment to be purchased includes former teachers who have died. After Main contests- will be for three Trustees Walter Wendzel and Class: f. m and went sideways down the left lane trustee positions, for which there arc 500 feet of 2"-fc-inch hose. 300 feet of of US-12. colliding with an eastbound H-2-inch hose, a 21/2-inch fog nozzle Leach and President Glenn Rice s.iid seven candidates. Otht-v officers, all they did not favor naming school? for tractor-trailer truck driven by Glen incumbents, are unopposed. and two Ht.-inch fog nozzles. The last Truax. Kalamazoo. Truax. who was people, the board voted to nama: the Polls will open at 7 a.m. Monday purchase of hose for the Fire depart not hurt, told officers that neither he ment was made in 1950. grade schools North elementary and nor Busse was traveling more than and will remain, open until 8 p.m. South elementary, and the high school Two of the seven trustee candidates As superintendent of the water de 30 miles an hour. The station wagon partment. Walker reported to the Hartford Junior and S e n i o r high was demolished and the front of the are incumbents seeking reelection. school. They are Milton Gelock and Nicholas council that the interior of all three truck was damaged. village well houses has been freshly Stielstra submitted to the board Tis* ;> Obrig. Others in the race are Clare Cubs make window displays for Scout week cornia's offer of bleachers seating' Busse's death is the second highway Becker, Frank Dockter, Sr/, Michael painted. H) fatality for Van Buren county already In observance of Boy scout a display at Kellogg's hardware. about 1,400 persons from the pack; Duffy, Samuel Galati and V i c t o r Besides approving the Fire depart this year. Both of them have occurred ment expenditure, the Township board week, Hartford Cub scout dens Den 3, of which Mrs. Basil Lin- now being dismantled- that was> the; in Hartford township, although neith Knapp. The three candidates' receiv derman is den mother, has a dis home of the Auscos baseball team. ing the highest number of votes will passed an ordinance renewing a fran have prepared window displays. er involved Hartford drivers. A ped chise to Consumers Power Co. for This one, by Den 1, of which Mrs. play at Disbrow's barber shop, The school will have to move the be nominated. bleachers to Hartford. It is intended to1 3 estrian. Otto Seyboth, was fa.ally in supplying natural gas to Hartford. A Merritt Weeden is den mother, is and en 5, of which Mrs. Richard jured Jan. 16 when hit by a car in Village trustees whose terms con Melvin is den rhother, has a dis use them for football stands. The special election to confirm the fran- in the window of Emaline's Gift front of his home south of town. tinue are Donald Chidester, Edison c'r ise was set for March 24 at the play at the elementary school. The bleachers are built of structural stee& Harley and David Sweet, Sr. Trustee and Flower shop, and features a displays represent the Cub theme with wood plank seats and. footboards. Town hall. Registrations for the elec large book on which the pages Norman Ison. whose term is expiring, tion will be taken Feb. 23. of science for January and the Trustees John Babcock and Leach did not seek leeicction. turn. Den 2, of which Mrs. Arthur golden anniversary of^scouting for were appointed "b.v Rice to investigate Mrs. Voiney Olds Unopposed candidates for other vil Troutman, Jr., is den mother, has February. (Day Spring photo). the moving of them. ^ lage offices in Monday's election are A letter from Rbger MacLeo.*, .$&«_*• Mavor Cecil drop, Clerk Richard April 9 is date ident of the Hartford high; school **3-*_«ff i dies at 90; lived Phillips, Treasurer Grant Hitchcock of 1954 and now manager of tht Waixm 4 and Assessor Charles Ison. Bankruptcy shuts locker plant; Friend hotel at Holland, prod utcecl a The Citizens party ticket is the only lengthy discussion of curriculum,: As. of queen contest; an alumnus, MacLeod asked for more one in the primary. Winners will be 1 here for 75 years unopposed, except for possible write- advanced, mathematics and -stieace courses and modern language; Masses. Mrs. Voiney Olds. 90, died early ins, at the village general election in spoiled food in lockers dumped March. name committees plus improving counselling,, in thee yesterday at the Bloch Rest home, The Hartford Locker plant was clos state took custody of it for several high school. ¢, where she had been for about a week. A contest for selection of Miss Hart ed last week when the proprietor, days. When the tax claim reportedly ford of 1960 was set for April 9 at Stielstra referred: to a citfrieufoaik Since the death of her husband in 1946, Theodore Anderson, filed a voluntary was satisfied, the state stepped out. study committee which _kncti©neti'««»• a meeting Thursday night at the home petition in bankruptcy, and contents The bankruptcy petition was filed she had lived with her sister, Mrs. of Mrs. John VanLierop. Co-chairmen fore the present school building-• .-paEtofc-- Frank Eagan. her only survivor. Hubbard's doubles of the lockers, which court officials Thursday and the federal district gram was undertaken and _?aa_i,. "IW? of the contest are Mrs. Wilbur Bul- said had spoiled, were hauled away court immediately sent a custodian Born Estella McAllister at Buch lard and Mrs.