The question: athletic complex at school or park ? The Board of Education at track for $1.00 per year for 25 The track at the park isn't under which the school oper- for light bulbs and electricity regardless of where the Cass City High School will be years. all that bad...but it is not an ated previously at the park at the football field. facility is located. making an important decision • Payment by the school of all-weather track either...the are entirely different. Once the capital improve- It is.likely that the question concerning the athletic facilit- all utilities used at the site. News analysis kind that other schools are The school rents the land ments are made on a new will bp«hproughly aired at the ies to be used by the school for • Maintenance of the leased adopting and already are in for $800 a year and the village facility the maintenance Monday, '> Aug. 11, board the, next 25 years when it land by the school district. operation at Bad Axe, Mar- pays all maintenance except figures to be about the same meeting. decides whether or not to sign (That includes grass cutting, right to remove improve- While leasing the land free lette, Caro and other area schools. a proposed lease with the fertilizing, weed control, etc.) ments (bleachers, lights, is a generous offer, it could be ............. .£;.;. • Payment by the school of etc.) if the lease were It would undoubtedly cost village of Cass City. that the school's situation %& A proposed lease was all improvements which terminated and would be right now makes it less more to build at the high m presented for study to the would include new lights, required to leave the ground attractive than it otherwise school initially, but how much Sidewalk Sales s$ board by the Cass City Village bleachers, and any field in the same condition as it might be. more no one is guessing. A Council at its regular meeting improvements. presently is. school site would end once m • The parking area would be Essentially, what the For one thing the school has and for all the question of Monday night at the High ample expansion room for the School. controlled and maintained by agreement provides is for the village-school joint respon- school to use the village- foreseeable future. Plenty of sibility, lease renewal and On hand to explain the the village. room for establishing an Wow! 24 contests provisions as intended by the • The present softball field owned land for school athle- other questions that could tics providing they pay the athletic facility right at the arise under a joint agree- village was Village President would be moved and two new school where it would un- Lambert Althaver. softball fields built in the east entire cost of the operation. ment. What the school board must doubtedly be more convenient Supt. DorLCrQUse-says^that^ The significant provisions addition to the park where for-the students; - ..include: - - - two-games could be played -now- decide -is what ""savings."" fie has the feeling that people • Lease of the property that nightly and lights be elimin- the plan has for the district New lights and new blea- now want the park site used, now includes the baseball ated for softball. and is the park location worth • chers will be needed at either but concedes that the propos- location. diamond, football field and • The school would have the it? al now and the conditions Thursday, Friday and Saturday are on parking meters Friday and Satur- Sidewalk Days in Cass City but perhaps day. You'll be able to park" free. Seeger the summer sales event of the year street, north of Main on the west side should be called family game days can be used for additional exhibits if instead. needed, the council decided. For 24 different contests will be held Retailers say that there will be so on the streets in the village during the much activity on the sidewalks that it special event. There will be prizes and would be easy to forget what started it CASS • CIT• Y CHRONICI * ribbons for the winners and fun for all all in the first place: the sidewalk sale, starting Thursday and swinging into bargains. high gear Friday and Saturday. But bargain hunters will find that All the traditional games including VOLUME 69, NUMBER 12 CASS CITY CHRONICLE-THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1975 Twenty Cents TWENTY PAGES along with the greatly increased fun tire rolling, hula hoop contest skip rope schedule will come a greatly expanded contest, nail driving contest and many buying opportunity for local shoppers. others have been carded by the various More businesses have more items to cooperating merchants in the Retail offer this year than ever before. The Division of the Chamber of Commerce. games and the contests are staged with Faces Aug. 26 vole The event has been months in a dual purpose. planning under the direction of Clar- The first is to show appreciation to ence "Bud" Schneeberger and an Hit1 many area shoppers who make active committee. C;:ss City their buying headquarters. Responsible for rounding up the Tho second is to make sure that every Board cool to games and scheduling thorn so there shopper will come to the village during will be no conflicts was Tom Proctor. ' the- sale clays to see the really big Gerald Prieskorn took charge of bargains thai local retailers are finding space for the many bake sales, offering. rummage sales, flea markets and A complete list of the cooperating similar activities that will be conducted merchants and a schedule of the contest Intermediate levy during the three days. activity, rules and time they a re offered The village fathers are cooperating, appear in a page advertisement in this too. They have declared a moratorium issue. The Cass City Board of LITTLE PROGRESS Education declined to en- dorse a .6-mill levy for the Meanwhile, little progress Intermediate School District was reported on several key to be used to build a new improvement projects. The school for the handicapped if new Intermediate School gym approved by voters in the Eleven from area hurt floor project is stalled while Intermediate district Tues- the board determines what is day, Aug. 26. the best way to proceed. The question was discussed at the regular meeting of the The floor has been removed board Monday at Cass City and Supt. Donald Crouse reported that conflicting testi- in Huron accidents High School when it adopted a resolution calling for the mony has been received from election, knowledgeable persons con- Eleven area residents were Shagena also suffered frac- Shagena operates a vending Trustees are eyeing the tacted. injured last week in a series tured ribs and other cuts and machine business and was measure reluctantly because of auto • crashes in Huron bruises. making collections at the The new roof for Campbell county. The most serious According to Huron County time of the accident. it is an addition to the one-mill elementary building is also levy now in force for the resulted in a severe eye Sheriff's deputies, witnesses The mishap took place at stalled, but not for long. Two injury for a 56-year-old Ubly said the Shagena vehicle 4:30 p.m. Intermediate district and is bids were received and re- an open end" lew that man involved in a two-car made a U-turn in front of a A 20-year-old Deford man viewed and, just prior to the accident Friday afternoon on westbound vehicle driven by and two boys who were is in force unless speci- board meeting, a third ar- fically rescinded in a referen- M-25 near Port Austin. William Dufty, 47, of Case- passengers in his car sustain- rived that Crouse says , Ralph N. Shagena was ville. Although injured, Dufty ed injuries Saturday when the dum vole. "merits serious study". The Mrs. Geraldine Prieskorn BSSfi"" transferred from Huron sought his own medical treat- vehicle went out of control on says that a look at Darby roof is likely to be the first Memorial Hospital to Univer- ment. Ivanhoe Road a quarter mile project completed. Officers recovered $400 i;i south of Morrison Road, eight School and the several mov- WORKING HARD To erect the flower baskets now decorating sity Hospital in Ann Arbor for able classrooms now in use The revamping of school treatment of an injury to his loose change from Shagena's miles southwest of Ubly. for educating the exceptional land for an elementary-inter- the utility poles on Main street were Joe Gruber of the village crew eye that occurred as a result station wagon, which was Huron County Sheriff's demolished in the mishap. children would convince most mediate playground is also in and Aime Ouvry, working for the Chamber of Commerce. of a deep facial laceration. Concluded on page 5. persons that new facilities are limbo while the school waits needed. for building specification. No Judging by the discussion, progress. what she favors and what the The project at the Ever- majority of the board favors green School to solve a waste is a millage for a specific time disposal problem is still Owen-Gage board moves for the construction. waiting for an engineer's ISD officials see the extra report. No progress. millage paying for a new facility in five years. After OKAY TEXTBOOKS that it is thought that increas- ed costs of operation would Several thousand dollars to start school renovation require the millage to contin- worth of new textbooks were ue.