2 churches vote to merge Salute to Clinton SCD 3 CD programs set CBD suitable for Page 4 B Section C ie9B redevelopment-^ Page 11 B News wins top state award' for excellence The Clinton County News has lence category were Watts Wack- been .selected as the top weekly er, senior vice president of D. P. newspaper in its circulation Brother and Co.; Rodney C. Hoi- class in Michigan! brbok, media director of J. Wal­ A handsome metal plaque for ter Thompson; Arthur-Porter, general excellence was present­ senior vice president of Camp- ed to the CCN last Saturday at bell-Ewald Co.; Frederick C. CENTS the annual meeting of the Michi­ Weiss Jr., media director of Vol. Ill, No. 41 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1967 PS^JSST^SSI ™ gan ^ress Assn. in East Lansing. Young and Rubicam, Inc.; and The^ews' circulation class Clyde.D. Vortman, media direc­ includes all newspapers, outside tor of .Zimmer, Keller and Cal­ of the metropolitan areas, with vert, Lie.-'. a circulation of 4,100 and up. The MP Agists about 60 newspapers WHILE GENERAL excellence They'll always remember... in that classification. is considered the top achieve­ In addition, the CCN tied for ment in the annual MPA news­ first -place in offset newspapers paper contest, the Clinton Conn-, for best use of pictures and tied ty News staff was happy and hon­ for third place in news reporting. ored to win two other circulation class awards. ' THE NEWSPAPER contest, In best use of pictures, the took in.the issues between Oct, CCN tied for first place with the 1, 1965, and Sept. 30, 1966. For Belleville Enterprise-Roman in its primary general excellence the offset newspaper class. Sec­ issues, the Clinton County News ond place was taken by the Ing­ The Big Snow of '67 submitted its issues of Sep't. 1, ham County News at Mason and Oct. 21 and Dec. 16, 1965; third place by the Livingston Points considered by the judg­ County Press at Howell. Honor­ es were: general and depart­ able mention was given the Da­ By LOWELL G. RINKER, Editor There are no plans yet to extend the school year. MORE PICTURES - Page A-2, 3, St. Johns stayed in session all day Thursday during mental news, 20 per cent; me- , vison Index and Flat Rock Guar­ 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, B-l chanical excellence, 20 percent; dian. It started about 9:30 a.m. last Thursday with a few the first six hours of the storm. All buses left at the normal time,' and all but one of the 22 vehicles completed their advertising enterprise, 15 per In the contest for news report­ flakes. But it didn't take more than an hour befpre Clinton i*iui cent; editorial page, 15 percentj' area folks began to doubt the weather forecast of "up to runs. The one that did get stuck was snowed in on Bond ing, the County News tied for Road in southeastern Olive Township until Monday. Only general appearance, makeup and third place with the Ingham Coun­ four inches of snow" that day. style, 15 per cent; pictures, 10 With a light but steady northeasterly wind whipping it, five children were yet on the bus, and they had to walk ty News. The Lapeer County home. per cent; and promotion of com­ Press was first and the Belle­ the snow continued to fall; swirling first over bare pave­ munity interests, 10 per cent. ville Enterprise - Roman was ments and finally turning them white. There were no reports of damage to any of the school Judges for the general excel- second. \ The snow fell heavily all that day, and a foot or more buildings as of Monday. Maintenance men were walking had accumulated by theevening.Homeowners shoveled paths in to them, however, to check on conditions. and 'driveways, getting themselves and their cars under Sl - -.-7.. ' ' A shelter. They went to bed that night confident that the worst Joftni m ,n, u , was over — it had to be over. i Damage at F-M " " "-""".'..,M4„rtjr. / Only it wasn't. FEDERAL MOGUL CORP. IN St. Johns had some DRIVEWAYS AND FOOT PATHS were gone Friday anxious moments Friday afternoon. About noon employees morning. Snow was still coming down as thick and as fast noticed some distortion in, the old steel trusses in the oldest section of the plants as snow 6n the flat roof began to build *'*r*--4' * •""•tar . * •" as it did Thursday. It hadn't abated all night. The wind swirled it away from the north sides of buildings and piled up. Heavy wooden posts were obtained quickly from a lumber it up tight against the south and west sides. Six-foot dri£ yard, and with help from their men, others from St. Johns were not uncommon, even in St. Johns, i Co-rOp and F-M production crews, the roof was shored up. Only a handful of St. Johns merchants — you c The temporary repairs have allowed Federal Mogul to , i- almost count them on one hand — braved the storm Resume* production, and the extend of the damage isn't "optimistically opened their doors for business Fr m yet, according to Plant Manager Ed Idzkowski. It morning. A common sight was people walking home • be/ much less than had the roof caved in on equipment sacks of groceries, and the A & P downtown experienced pai|ts in process. _ " a big run on their stocks. *We had people here who really worked hard to pre- The Steel Hotel Coffee Shop and Walker's Cafe weY< (See THE BIG SNOW OF '67, JagefS-A) u\ ife Tt *$**' .; \ reportedly the only restaurants open in downtown St. John: Friday and they did a surprisingly brisk business'- day. People who did come down to open their stores o do odds and ends work around the place had to eat, and many walked back home for lunch. AT 1 P.M. THE SKY brightened, and about 20 min later there was a definite slacking off in the rate of soo NEWS' GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD fall-the first change of pace in 28 hours. The storm was over! The result was 24 or inches of snow on the level and six feet and more in drifts areas. The world was white, and it was a mess. Stalled stuck cars Uttered the streets and roads, both parallel an cr_ossways to the lines of traffic. \ Schools closed SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE county were closed Fri day, Monday and Tuesday. County roads were plugge tightly, making It impossible for school buses to g> around. In St. Johns, Tuesday was the seventh day this yea a - that school had been cancelled because of snow. That won' hamper anything as far as state aid is concerned, Sup Earl Lancaster said, because the storm Ms consider an act of God." But the sfi Johns school official is concerned ab|oi the effect on the school's North Central accreditat o ^ w North Central rules say a school must be in session 1 days during the year, and after Monday St. Johns w fall short of that number by the end of the school year. "ALL WE CAN-DO IS ask North Central to forgive u: Lancaster said. St. Johns is presently, the only school BURIED ON CLINTON AVENUE the county which is North Central accredited. EAST HIGHAM.WAS STILL CLOGGED UP SATURDAY AFTERNOON Clinton SCD's 11th annual mee More than 250 persons are ex­ the district since I960, own and bush; Harold G. Phillips of BATHURST, A native of Kan­ mer Rademacher and Francis ton County SCD and ClintonCrop pected to attend the 11th annual operate 349 acres of land in Ovid Greenbush; R. Lee Ormston of sas, graduated with honors from Trierweiler will conduct the Service, of which Donald Bast is meeting of-the Clinton County Soil Township. (A complete story on Ovid; Lee Chant of Olive; Harry Kansas State University in 1949. election soon after the dinner. manager. Conservation District this Satur­ them and their operation appears and Charles Wadell of Dupjain; He was elected to Phi Kappa Phi FFA chapters from Bath, Pe- Glenn D. Bedell, soil survey day at Smith Hall.' on Page C-3 of this issue.) SCS and, Ernest Jackson of Ovid. ' and Gamma Sigma Delta and Al­ wamo-Westphalia, Ovid - Elsie party leader for Clinton, Ingham Events will start at 11:30a.m. Directors Keith Wright and Clar­ The main speaker for the an-- pha Zeta honorary agricultural and St. Johns high schools will and Eaton counties, will have an with the judging of FFA soil and ence Manning will make the ntial meeting will be Verne M. fraternities. He was a navigator have their conservation exhibits exhibit of soil examples and their water conservation exhibits and award. Bathurst, state conservationist - with the U. S. Air Force during uses set up in Smith Hall for the then will include a noon dinner Another 15 farmers will re­ for,the U.S. Soil Conservation World War It and served in,the early birds to view. preceding the business and en­ ceive, district cooperator signs in Service. same capacity in the Korean War. Salute to SCD tertainment sessions. recognition foranoutstandingjob • A SERIES OF 52 pictures of Following his graduation, The Clinton County News "America the Beautiful" will be The highlight of the afternoon of conservation farming over the and the businessmen of the years. Receiving the signs will Bathurst .held positions with the hung on the walls of Smith Hall. will be the awarding of the Clin­ SCS in Concordia, Hayes, Mc­ Clinton area are happy to pro­ 'K ton County Soil Conservation be: The 20 by 24-inch color pictures pherson, Effingham and Hiawa­ vide, with the assistance of the -show conservation practices in District Cooperator of the Year Ben Dayrell Jr.