W''' ill A-"* ........-A- V X< ••\V^ A ■ • • A ' o: n '' =: m 109th Year — No. 15 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN Thursday, August 6, 1964 10 CENTS More spending Name Greer won’t up taxes 'Xi city manager i.'*' Clinton County ’s operating budget for City Assessor Kenneth Greer, who has 1965 will be up by $88,907, but taxpayers* :i/j been acting city manager since June 12 will have a reduction in their bills of Tuesday night received the appointment as $93,135. manager on a full-time basis. These figures Township Greer has been were brought out at a doubling in duty since public hearing Mon­ Caucuses Ralph Pre c i o u s re­ day before the county signed the city man­ board of supervi ­ ager post to go to De- sors, after which Aufpist 29 Kalb, Ill. His ap- they adopted the bud­ n? Township caucuses must be pointm ent as full get. held on either Aug. 29 or Sept. time m anager, ex- * » 1 this year and the township L-vV, A TAX of 5.5 mills will be al­ board must determine the day on p e c t e d for some located to raise money to run the which all caucus sessions in the time, was made by county, and it will bring in $578,- township will be held 20 days •■il 219.95. prior to the caucus. the city commission at its regular meet­ County Clerk Paul Wakefield The county plans to spend in the •IT r ■» A . neighborhood of $848,261.95, but reminded township officials of ing Tuesday night. it needs only $578,219.95 from a this new regulation this week » ♦ K./ 5.5 mill tax to balance the budget. U- GREER HAS been working for GONE ARE the days when a 44 t' V An estimated cash balance of m ..itu'4' the city of St. Johns since early group, defeated in one caucus, M $152,042, and income "over-the- 1957 when he became assessor. KENNETH GREER counter ” of $118,000 balance the could hold another later In the This crumpled wreckage, containing the body of Richard Hart of Bath, is what In the seven years since, he has figures. day and put up a slate of their also been given the responsibili ­ part-time secretary for the St. ♦ ♦ own. Now the caucus session remains after a flaming crash with a cattle truck Sunday on U S-27 south of St. Johns. Johns Chamber of Commerce. ties of building Inspector and * * THIS YEAR’S expenditure is must be scheduled 20 days in ad ­ zoning administrator. $88,907 higher than the $759,354 vance by the township board and Plate glass window GREER RECEIVED his high last year. Most of the increase all caucus sessions must be held Flaming crash kills The assessor, according to the school education at Flint Central is accounted for in three budgeted the same day. broken by bottle city charter, is automatically a High School. He has attended Lansing Community College and items which were not on last A front plate-glass window was member of the county board of year’s list. They are capital im­ Wakefield said the law allowed broken out of the Fowler Electic supervisors, and Greer has been Michigan State University and is provements ($54,411), countyre- caucus sessions to be held on building at 616 Wright Road, Fow­ Bath man on US-27 one of the city’s representatives presently enrolled in a group appraisal ($84,500), and Employ ­ Sept. 1, which Is primary elec­ on that public l)ody since 1957, correspondence course with oth­ ler about 2:15 a.m. Saturday. A A Bath man was killed Sunday was headed north. It burst into ees Retirement Plan ($12,500). tion day, but he presumed town ­ beer bottle was apparently thrown * • er city administrative officers Several other items are lower. ship boards would select the oth­ afternoon in the flaming crash of flames and the St. Johns Fire from around Central Michigan. against the window. An electric his pickup and a cattle truck on Dept, was called to the scene. HE CAME to St. Johns in 1946 er available date, Aug. 29, be­ light fixture was also broken. after serving with the United U S-27 south of St. Johns. Sooy was not injured, although he Greer and his family live at The appropriation and finance cause a caucus held on the day Except for snow, Clinton Coun ­ States Army in China and India. of the primary election would be reportedly complained of chest 300 Lindy Lane. He and his wife committee, which drew up the Sidewalk Days in St. Johns on ty has about run the gauntlet of For varying lengths of time he most confusing Richard Hart, 43, of Bath was pains the following day. have three children, Linda, 19, budget for board approval, con ­ Thursday and Friday. , weather during the past week. worked as hospital X-ray and sists of Derrlll Shlnabery of apparently killed instantly. He Regan 12, and Shannon 10. There’s been sunshine and rain, was burned so badly In the fire The crash was the first fatal lab technician at Clinton Memo­ Greenbush, chairman, Ken Greer and cool and hot days and nights. rial Hospital for 10 years. of St. Johns and Almond Cress- that followed that the sheriff’s accident on the four-mile stretch Greer was a charter member J. C. Penney’s new department was unable to Identify of US-27 since the detour went man of Olive. Monday was perhaps the hard­ During that span he also opera ­ of the St. Johns Jaycees and was * ♦ him until Monday noon. into effect in June. It occurred also a member of the Exchange est day for people to get through. * « several hundred yards south of ted the former Camera Shop next THIS YEAR was the fir.st time The temperature reached 98 de ­ to the Legion Club on Walker Club in 1947. the l«ard has acted on the final manager starts here HART’S PICKUP truck collided Daley’s Restaurant. Traffic was grees in St. Johns —probably a head-on with a tractor-trailer routed along the lane under con ­ Street and from 1951 to 1953 was budget. Prior to this, a tentative record — and coupled with high t)udget was drawn up and passed truck carrying cattle and driven struction. Resigns from Jerry Knupp, a veteran of 12 humidity, it made a sticky, un ­ by Russell J. Sooy, 49 of Ithaca. * * LaBrie tells of on in the spring to the tax al­ comfortable day. location board, which acted. years with the J. C. Penney Co., The accident occurred at 6:08 MR HART was born at Garnett, took over last Thursday as man­ * * p.m. Mich., March 16, 1921, a son of NEA convention library board ager of the St. Johns store. SUNDAY wasn’t much cooler — Mr and Mrs Leon Hart. He lived in Wise Township, Isabella Coun ­ Seattle it was 97. But toward the end of Witnesses told Deputy Sheriff in The resignation of Mrs Orpha OK zoning Knupp replaced Edward W. last week it got so chilly many of Hilary Hafner, who investigated, ty, and in Hessel two years before Clement from the county library Stephenson who was promoted to that Hart’s truck, traveling south moving to Bath. Robert LaBrie, of the St. Johns board was accepted Monday by the those who had been wishing for High School faculty, told of his the management of the larger re­ cooler weather changed their on U S-27, had passed several Clinton County Board of Super­ Survivors Include his parents experiences at the 1964 National tail operation at Cadillac. minds. The high last Thursday cars before the accident. He was visors. They named Elizabeth changes * * of Curtis, Mich.; his wifeof Wise Education Association convention was only 78. apparently passing another ve­ Hess of Elsie as her replace­ THE NEW manager here Joined hicle when struck in the north­ Township; five sons, Vernon with in Seattle when he talked to the ment. local Rotary Club at their Tues­ The Clinton County board of Penney ’s in 1951 at Harrison ­ Farmers are still hoping for bound lane by the tractor-trailer the US Navy, Leon of Mackinac day noon meeting. Supervisors adopted several zon ­ burg, Va. He has worked at Pen­ rain because of the dry weather south of Daley’s Restaurant. Island, and Joe, Lester and Oliver Mrs Clement said she wished ney stores in York, Pa., Upper ♦ * with their mother; four daugh­ ing changes and amendments to that has hung over Central Michi­ Theme of the convention, La­ to resign because she was librar­ the county rural zoning ordinance Darby, Pa., and Wilmington, Del., gan for several weeks. There THE IMPACT of the crash spun ters, Mrs Jeanne Mogg of Rose- ian at Elsie, and according to the where he was assistant manager. the pickup around so that it, too. mont, Minn,, Mrs Janet Slocum Brie said, was ‘Education for Monday. were some showers on a couple Responsible F r e e do m.” Intro ­ state, librarians cannot serve on of occasions, including a thunder­ of Wise Township, and June and county library boards. Knupp attended Madison Col ­ Barbara, with their mother; two ducing the speaker to the club Jack Walker and Zoning Ad ­ storm and a good rain Sunday * * lege at Harrisonburg. grandsons; and one sister and two was Dr Russell M. Kraft, pro ­ ministrator Gerald Walter pre­ night. gram chairman for the Tuesday Mrs Clement’s term was for Want to put brothers in the Upper Peninsula.