Degelbeck - 8 down and countina Campaign ends =fi-en buy pagers V Page 9, section one Page 5, S‘ CASS CITY / VOLUME 82, NUMBER 2 CAS CITY, MICHIGAN -WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,1988 Twenty-five cents SECTION ONE, PAGES 1-12 18PAGh,s - .UPPLEMENTS OK $25,000 At Chamber banquet water main project Althaver predicts A block-long section of an old water main believed to be causing rust problems for Third Street residents will be replaced this year, more at Wabro the Cass City Village Coun- jobs cil decided Monday night. ...I In addition to learning “very, very gooa. “greatest show on earth” to be hit by a bullet rather The council voted unani- who won honors for the Althaver, who is also mously to pursue the esti- that was a hint of what is in than if, he said. We owe year, members of the Cass president and chairman of store for Cass Cityans and these men a debt of mated $25,000 project, City Chamber of Com- the board at Walbro Corpo- which will involve replac- visitors during the Christ- gratitude,and said thathe continued,publicity merce attending the annual ration, said that there will mas season. ing a section of main bet- banquet Tuesday night at be new opportunities for ween Woodland Avenue about the inability for re- Cass City High School en- employment at Walbro be- KEYNOTE SPEECH turning vets to adjust is and Ale Street. joyed a varied program and fore the end of the year. Councilman Nat Tuttle, heard everywhere, but the heard some good news from Guests also got a sneak Stanley Beach, retired facts are that veterans as a chairman of the council’s Lambert Althaver, village preview of this year’s United States Marine Chap- Public Services Commit- group have better jobs. president, who presented Christmas creation by lain who was awarded the graduate more from col- tee, recommended ap- the state of the village ad- Lloyd Vyse and Carl Schell, Bronze Star, showed slides proval of the work. lege and are more success- dress. a large cow-like papier and described life with sol- ful than those who were not “We sincerely hope that Althaver called attention mache figure named Hilda. diers on the front, Citing will take care of the whole serving overseas. to the progress in the busi- Vyse also dressed in a the odds, he said that On a personal note, problem,” he told the coun- ness community in the year ringmaster’s outfit and Marines in Vietnam after a cil, adding that if problems Beach said that he had lived and said that the prospects brought out a group of few days at the front talked in 18 different homes during continue, village officials for industrial growth were clowns to announce the about when they were going will take steps to investi- CITIZEN OF THE YEAR MIKE WEAVER accepts Please turn to page 6. gate further. congratulations from last year’s recipient, Lou LaPonsie. A petition requesting im- mediate action on the water problem, signed by more Weaver honored for long than 21 Third Street resi- dents who live between Woodland Avenue and Seeger Street, was pre- sented to the council last month. servece to cornmunitv Village Manager Lou S. LaPonsie at that time stated that weekly testing A long record public by the village confirmed of served as the first parade ary. PancratiusHe is a memberCatholic of St. service stretching back to chairman. He also served Weaver has been secret- “objectionable” levels of when he joined the Cass iron in water from the on the board of the Hills and ary and president of the Church in Cass City and City business community 20 Dales Medical Center and Thumb Area Pharmacy As- served as a member of the main. He estimated the years ago has earned Mike as secretary and long-time main is more than 50 years sociation and a member of parish council. Weaver, 42, citizen of the board member of the Cass state and national drug- He and his wife, Toby, old. year honors for The LaPonsic Monday stated 1988. City Industrial Develop- gists’ associations. have 2 children, Jean, a award, together with the ment Corporation. He is a He entered the business freshman at the University that the project will be co- co-junior citizen of the year member of the board of vered by funds in the vil- community after purchas- of Michigan, and Wendy, a ’ awards were announced Chemical Bank Bay Area ing Mac & Scotty Drug sophomore at Cass rity lage’s Water System Fund. Tuesday, April 12, at the In other business during in Cass City. Store, later expanding it High School. annual Chamber of Com- He is a member and past twice and renaming it In accepting the award the 40-minute rescheduled merce banquet at Cass City president of Cass City Rot- monthly meeting, the coun- Coach Light Pharmacy. Please turn to page 6. High School. I cil approved extending an The junior citizens are existing contract with David Burnette and Jane Gateway Sanitation Ser- Marie Dickinson. vices, Almont, through Weaver has been active Dec. 31, 1989. in virtually all of the organi- The extension, a one-year School board says zations promoting Cass contract beginning Jan. 1, City for business and indus- 1989, calls for continua tion try. He currently is serving of the current service rate his second term as a of $3.50 per month per resi- member of the village coun- dent. The agreement also cil and is active in the Sal- no to Millington states that Gateway has the vation Army. option of raising the service He is active in the Cass rate should landfill costs in- City Chamber of Com- crease. merce and the Retail Divi- Millington High School’s 750 students compared to schedules. Whether or not A representative of Gate- sion of the Chamber and is entry into the Thumb B As- Cass City’s 550, and the the league admits Mil- way who attended Mon- sociation, regarded as vir- travel distance involved. It lington will not be known a past president of both or- tually certain before a sur- Was Pointed out that Mi1- until Marlette reaches a de- day’s meeting indicated ganizations. As a Chamber that service rates could in- member he was one of the prise vote by the Cass City llngton would be about the cision. crease slightly. He said a 20 originators of the annual School Board at its regular Same size as North Branch percent landfill price in- homecoming parade and meeting Monday at Everg- and Car0 among league ADOPT POLICY crease to Gateway would reen School, is now up in teams. Cass City is about in translate into a hike to resi- the air. the middle in enrollment A policy change proposed dents of only about 5 per- The Cass City board with Bad Axe, Lakersand at the last meeting was cent. voted 4-3 not to allow Mil- Marlette smaller. adopted. It was made The contract extension lington in the league to re- Voting to allow Mil- necessary to qualify for I was approved on a vote of place Imlay City in the 1989- lington to Join were Presi- $50 000 extra state aid. *’ Area more season. dent Ed Scollon, Dick Wal- ChAnges included a re- 4-1. Trustee Joanne Hop- police say help 90 per, who stated shebelieves The unexpected action lace and Allan Hartwick. quirement of a semester of the contract language re- now leaves the fate of Mil- Leading the opposition computer education and a garding a possible service lington’s entry into the was Ben Hobart, who said change in graduation rate increase is vague, cast league up to Marlette’s that he felt that Millington guidelines for other courses the lone dissenting vote. needed in war on drugs board of education, which was not the school for the that Principal Russ Biefer Also Monday, the council tabled the request at its league and that if neces- saidwasnogreatproblem. received a petition signed meeting. Cass City Athletic sarY could be admitted in a In. a related action the by 18 Fourth Street resi- Director Don Schelke told Year Or 2. Also voting board heard a proposed pol- Extensive drug raids con- sons, including a Cass City to fight it. Burns, a member of the dents who requested that area resident, was praised criminal investigations the board that it takes 6 against admittance were icy change in the adult edu- their street, between West ducted by federal, state and Last week’s raids, con- votes (three-quarter Fred Matthew% Jim cation program, also made other officers. in Bay, by law enforcement offi- ducted by some 170 law en- section of the Michigan and Vulcan Streets, be re- cials in Tuscola County. forcement officers, were State Police, the April 12 majority) to allow a team Turner and Beverley necessary to qualify for surfaced ; appointed new Saginaw and Tuscola coun- in the league. Since Imlay 8Auten. state aid. What it amounts ties last week have been At the same time, how- the result of lengthy investi- raids turned up guns, cash, trustee Matt Prieskorn as ever, county officials say large quantities of cocaine City abstains, 6 of the re- Schelke told the board to, Director Dave Lovejoy deemed a major victory in gations conducted by the maining 7 league schools that a 7-team league. Pses told the board, is that adult the village’s Memorial Day the recent drug raids are a and 25 to 30 vehicles. Parade chairman, and re- the war against drugs in the FBI and BAYANET (Bay must approve accepting a SerlOuS scheduling dlfflcul- education must have core Saginaw Bay area, frustrating reminder that Area Narcotics Enforce- One of the investigations new team.