<. CASS ‘I 20 PAGES PLUS SUPPLEMENT CITY CHROFTICLE31, VOLUME 76, NUMBER 28 CAS MICHIGAN -THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,1982 CITY, !P c-+ “‘b,, <I 11 I, ‘I/, peddler control The Cass City Village from the village. Require- transient merchants out be- LEAVES Council Tuesday evening re- ments in the proposed ordi- cause licensing procedures ceived its first look at a nance would include a were too complicated to Council members ex- proposed ordinance to con- photograph and fingerprints make it worth applying. pressed concern about trol transient merchants. of the applicant, certifica- As for the legality of such homeowners raking leaves It was prepared by the tion by two Tuscola County ordinances if challenged in into the street. village’s attorney, Clinton property owners “as to the court, House commented, They then approved a House, who warned that it is applicant’s good charac- “This will hold up as long as policy that leaves are not to impossible to control mer- ter,’’ statement from a you enforce it equally . I be raked into the street. chants who come to town for physician as to the appli- think it would stand up.” As an alternative to that a -few days and sell mer- cant’s good health, state- The key, he stressed, is and to burning -- which is chandise, usually out of the ment as to the merchandise equal enforcement. It would still legal -- the village will back of their trucks, without to be sold and its value, not be legal, for instance, provide free pickup of having to have some con- investigation by local police for merchants to have a leaves that are bagged and trols on those who are and posting of a $1,000surety downtown sidewalk sales tied and left by the curb for permanently in business bond. A license fee would be day and then not let outaf- pickup. here. “You can’t have your charged,It was stressed that the town merchants participate The first pickup will be ONLY RUBBLE WAS LEFT by the time Elkland Township fire fighters cake and eat it too,” he said if they got a license, this Friday and the second at one point in the discus- draft presented to the coun- Local merchants under dll be a week later, Nov. 5. extinguished the blaze Sunday that destroyed the home of Theron and Luans sion. cil was only a proposal and some circumstances might The leaves should be left out Roach and their four children. The fire spread so quickly, the only item saved The council had House some provisions might be have to get a transient by early morning. from inside was an old chair. prepare the ordinance at the eliminated if the ordinance merchant license, for in- request of the Chamber of is approved. Copies will be stance, to conduct a truck- REZONING Commerce, members of given to Chamber members load merchandise sale out of which were upset over trans- for their review and can also a truck trailer instead of At the October meeting, ient merchants who sold be examined at the village from their store. carpenter Gary Deering furniture, tools and other office. In response to a question said he wanted to build a Home for family of six items in town this year. “I think municipalities from the Chronicle, House duplex apartment on a lot he The attorney explained he who have done it,” House said obtaining a transient owns on Pine Street, but was drafted his mdinance by said of such ordinances, merchant license would be unable to do so because’ the taking portions from control “have got away with a lot of more difficult than meeting land is zoned for single resi- ordinances in other towns, stuff because who’s going to the legal requirements to go dential homes and the village mainly Frankenmuth and challenge it?” into business on a perm- zoning ordinance requires a leveled in Sundav blaze Imlay City. In villages which have anent basis. minimum of 850 square feet d In order to sell merchan- them, where he talked with Council members had of living space. His proposed dise in town temporarily, an their attorneys, he said the some doubts. Dorothy Stahl- two apartments would have Fire Sunday morning left room a few minutes later turned to the fire hall at 1:30 them fix it up so that they out-of-town merchant would ordinances have had the baum, who owns a down- 600 feet each. a family of six with only the when she discovered the p.m. can move in soon. first have to obtain a license desired effect of keeping town store, said she found That led to a discussion clothes they were wearing. fire. Mrs. Roach said she dis- The Roaches, who are catalog sales and home sales that perhaps it is time to Destroyed was the mobile Firemen were unable to covered the fire when she dairy farmers, did have parties as troublesome as update the ordinance. home of Theron and Luana determine if a fault in the heard noises and the lights insurance on their mobile transient merchants. “This Village President Lam- Roach and their children, dryer caused the fire if it ordinance is not the answer, bert Althaver told council or flickered. By the time she home, though it wouldn’t Fritz dies in a Tammy, 17, Loyal, 16, Shan- was something else close to got to the room where the cover the entire loss, she I’m sorry.” She wasn’t sure members Tuesday that non, 11, and Robert, 7. The the appliance. The fire dryer was located, the back indicated. what is the answer. since the last meeting, the home was located on Gilford started in the area where the wall of the home was in By Tuesday morning, James Ware commented, village’s planning consult- Road, between Englehart dryer was located. flames and by the time she Mrs. Roach said, so many “The cure is worse than the ants, Vilican, Leman and and Crawford Roads in No- Fire fighters received the got outside, the roof was persons had donated clothes illness.” He suggested an Associates had been con- farm mishap tacted regarding minimum vesta Township. call at 11:30 a.m. It was already burning. She be- that they didn’t need any easier solution would be for Elkland Township Assist- “pretty much gone” by the lieves the dryer malfunc- more. “They’ve been really merchants to ask property floor space and possibly ex- . ant Fire Chief Ron Pawloski time fire fighters arrived, , tioned, which started the nice, unbelievable,” she owners who rent use of their panding the area where I. apartm-g allowed. estimated the loss at $4O,OOO, ,Pawloski said. Smoke cpyld fire, commepW*~,:lX&ll.‘*. my7 ?ye@ ,services wili. be saw spqrks between the property to, the transient includiug the mobile he d ’1 i~rsdhy for Larry ground and the tires of Fritz’ merchants not €0 do so. A representative of the * home, be seen from as far away as She was alone in the home know who your neighbors which had two additions, all Cass City, seven miles are.” D. Fritz, 31, of Owendale, truck. The ordinance will be on firm has been in Cass City to the contents, and partial at the time. The only item who was electrocuted in a When he saw smoke com- the agenda for further dis- study the matter and a away, by the time they got she saved was an old chair, Eventually, the family damage to a shed behind the there. will need some furniture and farm-related accident about ing from the tires, he went cussion at the council’s Nov. recommendation should be . minus the cushions. home and to the siding on A total of 11,OOO gallons of other items, but not until 8 p.m. Monday northwest of Please turn to page 20. 30 meeting. Please turn to page 17. Roach’s mother’s home water was used in exting- For now, the family is they are ready to move into that community. ’about 30 feet away. Some of uishing the blaze, two loads living with her husband’s the house. Fritz was dumping dirt the siding melted from the from the Elkland depart- mother, They had been slow- Mrs. Roach was very ap- from the box of his truck in a heat. ment’s tanker, plus the ly fixing up an old home preciative of those who have field in Windsor Township He said Mrs. Qoach told Kingston and Caro Fire down the road, as time and helped the family. “We’ve after having returned from him she had put clothes in Departments’ tankers were finances permitted, with the got a lot of friends. You find the Michigan Sugar Co. See above average the dryer in the rear of the also needed, aim of some day moving in. out a lot of people really plant in Sebewaing, where home and was in another Elkland fire fighters re- Friends are now helping care.” he had taken a load of sugar beets. There were no witnesses to the actual incident, but according to those who ar- off=vear vote Communication top goal rived soon after and Huron County sheriff’s deputies, Fritz had raised the box on Headlee versus Blanch- would increase interest, turnout for a non- the truck trailer and it came Proposalsard. Ruppe A, versusB, C, D,Riegle. E, G yes,”The sherecord said. turnout in a presentlypresidential are election. 31,513 Thereregis- in contact with a live power line. and H.