- s ■S' ^<8 IKII® •' % X'K' tX- x ^w* :;s;:W: S:-:-:;: y ::,:yyyyyxyyxyy ::::: 109th Year — No. 32 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN Thursday, December 3, 1964 2 SECTIONS - 30 PAGES 10 CENTS List jurors Set meeting for next on DeWitt Pohl Brothers court term city status Forty Jurors were drawn last A public meeting will be held week for the December term of In DeWitt next Tuesday night to circuit court. County Clerk Paul explain plans for the Incorpora ­ Wakefield has announced. The tion of that village as a city. December term of the court, Voters will go to the polls Dec. with Circuit Judge Leo Corkin 15 to decide on the question. sell auto agency presiding, opens Dec, 8. The meeting will be held at V, The Jurors, by townships, are: 8 p.m. Tuesday In the high school The sale of Pohl Brothers Chevrolet- • * gymnasium. The village council BATH, NELSON Abbot and will conduct the session, which Olds Co, to Bernard Feldpausch, a 20-year Maxine Wilkins; BENGAL, Ros- Is designed to Inform the citizens employee of the firm, was announced this week of DeWitt about the proposition Ina Mohnke, Edward Walker and by George and Herman Pohl, operators of the Violet Pope; BINGHAM, Paul and to answer questions they may Duski, Jennie Steavens and Lau- have. business since 1924. rene Thelen; DALLAS, Herman * * Biergans, Johanna Schafer and JOHN J. HUNNEWELL of the Feldpausch, 40, has been a partner with Michigan Municipal League will -"V Andrew Thelen; DeWITT, Mabel the Pohls for the past 10 years. Bauerle, George Frost and Er­ be present to help answer ques­ i tions. ma Schopp; DU PL AIN, Leroy With the change in HE CAME TO St. Johns where Vincent and Elw in E. Whitaker. he worked for the Earl Hustln If voters approve Incorporation !<*> ownership also comes Garage and Vic Fink. He started as a city, DeWitt would become a EAGLE, Sylvia Morris and Al­ work at Pohl’s 20 years ago as a separate legal entity from the a change in the busi­ bert M. Rasmussen; ESSEX, The­ mechanic and later became man­ township and would be eligible da Becker and Kathleen Boling; ness name. It will be ager of the parts department. He GREENBUSH, Paul Martls and lor two members on the county has been a partner with the Pohls board of supervisors. The bound ­ known as Bee’s Chev­ Lois Woodbury; LEBANON, Max for the past 10 years. Loudenbeck and Marten Schmlt; aries of the village would be the rolet and Oldsmobile, boundaries of the city. OLIVE, William Fedewa and Ev­ * * Inc. Feldpausch was a member of elyn Lapham; OVID, Bernard MC' the Armed Forces Services serv­ ALSO TO be voted on Dec. 15 earthy and Clarence Neller; RI­ Officers of the new corpora ­ ing with the US Army in Japan, BERNARD FELDPAUSCH ♦ v4 will be selection of nine mem­ LEY, Leon Schumaker and Ed ­ tion are: Feldpausch as presi­ and he received schooling with New Car Dealer bers of a charter commission. ward Witt. dent; Adeline Feldpausch, his the Army. He is married to the * ♦ Should the incorporation of the wife, vice president; Casper Automobile Dealers Assn., a former Adeline Smith of West­ member of Chevrolet North Cen­ VICTOR, JAMES Thelen and city be approved, the nine mem­ Feldpausch, secretary and phalia, and the couple have bers will write the new charter tral Alumni and a member of Mabel Dennis: WATERTOWN, treasurer; and Carl Ludwlck, four girls and two boys. They m'ixi, for submission to the people. Francis Feldpausch and Gayle Sales and Marketing Executives John Hey and Zula Wheaton; reside on a farm on Sevy Road of Lansing. WESTPHALIA, Grace Lehman Stevens, board members. northeast of St. Johns and are Deadline lor filing nominating • * and Louis P. Thelen; CITY OF ST. members of St. Joseph Catholic petitions as candidates for the The change in ownership and JOHNS, Duane DeLong, Laurine THE CHEVROLET and Olds- Church in the city. commission was Tuesday at 4 name of the business was ef­ Droste, Edward Riley and Shar- moblle agency, located at the * « p.m., and at that time 15 per­ fective Dec. 1. The business will ron Worrall. corner of Higham and Bru.sh FELDPAUSCH is activeinclv- sons had filed. Village Clerk Ray have as its new slogan “World ’s Streets, employs 31 persons and Ic affairs. He Is president of the Price listed them as: Richard Sweetest Place to Deal,” has grown In the past 40 years to St. Johns Chamber of Commerce Keck, Llovd Berkimer, Paul Mul- Youngsters Get Set for Helicopter Ride the extent that about 800 new and and a member of the Rotary Car, truck ford, Robert Ballard, Marshall 2 fined, jaiwd for used cars are sold each year. The Club, member and past presi­ While his unidentified assistant fastens the door, helicopter Warren, John Lenneman, Mrs Pohl Brothers, during their 40 dent of St. Johns Business Un­ illegal driving Virginia (Vernon) .Ackerman, years at the helm of the business, limited and a member of the Richard L. Miller, 21, of 1719 pilot John Clark of Greenville prepares to lift three youngsters into hit; Ovid Lawrence Keck, Orla McGuire, sold approximately 15,000 cars VFW. Rex, Lansing, drew a $50 fine the ,iir for a ride Saturday afternoon. Some 225 youngsters got free Howard Woodruff, Lawrence and trucks. For 20 years they also Ridsdale, Lee Rummell, Keith and $19.90 court costs and five man hurt sold and serviced Allis Chalmers He has shown a keen interest rides, sponsored by St. Johns Business Unlimited. Clark also pick­ Blizzard, Arthur Newman and days In Jail for driving on a re­ and J. I. Case farm machinery, in youth, being responsible for ed up and delivered Santa Claus on his first St. Johns visit later in An Ovid man, a passenger In a Don Steavens. voked license. He was arrested Clinton County Road Commission the Clinton County Soap Box Sunday and was sentenced by the afternoon. Feldpausch, as president and Derby, held in St. Johns for the Justice of the Peace Gordon Will- truck was Injured last Wednesday general manager of Bee’s Chev­ 3 county deputies past two years. As Derby direc ­ young. In a collision of the truck and a rolet and Oldsmobile, Inc., has car at US-27 and French Road. tor, he is already making plans David J. Pumfrey, 30, of 3319 at sheriff school practically life-long experience for the 1965 event. He Is also Wood Street, Lansing, was fined in automotive work. He was born presently conducting the first $35, assessed court costs of $19.- Paul A. Hill, 57, of R-2, Ovid, Three Clinton County deputy Alma man new assessor and raised on a farm south of 4-H class In automobile mechan­ 90 and sentenced to two days in was hospilallzed at Clinton Me­ sheriffs enrolled Monday in the Fowler and attended high school ics. Jail for driving on a revoked li­ SI. Johns will have a full-time HE WILL serve on the Clinton morial Hospital and was still 14th biennial school for sheriffs at Fowler. For two years he op ­ * * cense. He was arrested Satur­ assessor again Jan. 1 after being County board of supervisors, the there Monday, although reported and deputies at state police head­ erated a farm repair shop on his up and around and In “good con ­ IN THE automotive world, he day In DeWitt Township and fined w ithout one for atxiut six months. St. Johns city charter specifying quarters in East Lansing. The father’s farm. is a Key Dealer of the Michigan that the assessor is automatically dition. ” by Justice Wlllyoung. * ★ school continues through Friday. The Cltv Commission Tuesday one of the city’s representatives. night passed a resolution appoint ­ Besides being assessor for real HE WAS A passenger in the The Clinton deputies are Ra­ ing Donald Clark of Alma to the and personal property tax pur­ truck, being driven north on US- mon E. Terpenlng, Charles An­ Herman, George Pohl sold Ix)sition. He will fill the vacancy poses, he will be zoning admin ­ 27 by Leo E. Cox, 62, of 112 S. derson and Stanley C. Kajdas. left by Kenneth Greer when Greer istrator, building inspector and East Street, Ovid. Driver of the was appointed city manager In office manager. car Involved was Douglas W. This Is one of the largest of the August. Cook, 30, of R-1, St.Johns. schools in the series dating back 15,000 cars in 40-year span * * The appointment of Clark as to 1938. It Is sponsored Jointly by assessor came after a long, close Cook told sheriff’s deputies he the Michigan Sheriffs Assn, and CLARK, 34, MARRIED and the was crossing US-27 to go east on On Oct. 24, 1924 —40 years father of five children, Is pres­ look at a number of applicants the state police. Members of the by the city commission. The job French Road and that the color of association, the state i)ollce and ago—George and Herman Pohl ently <leput\ assessor at Alma. the truck blended with the sun purchased the Chevrolet agency He was appointed to that ijosltlon has been open since Greer’s ap­ representatives of other law en­ pointment to his present post in shining in his face. He said he forcement agencies and court of ­ In St. Johns from the Whittaker in 19G1 after serving as Alma city didn ’t see the truck, which hit his brothers. Since then they surviv­ trea.surer for four years. August.