110th Year No. 44 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966 3 SECTIONS - 36 PAGES 10 CENTS r A/ New bank's open house set March 2,3 St. Johns' newest institution, the Central National Bank, will hold open house next Wed­ nesday and Thursday, March 2 and 3, in its new building at Spring and Walker streets. Tours of the new building will be offer­ ed. Coffee and donuts will be served in the new community room of the banke The bank has been sides. Sculptured, exposed con- . ,. , . crete pillars surround the bulld- conductmg business at lng t0 the eastj framing a roo£ its new location Since covering the drive-in banking T 01 area. JanTh.e ope31n. house is intended to THE CENTRA* L Nationa* l Bank Old Hicks Building Coming Down New Central National Bank's Open. House Scheduled March give bank patrons and other area opened its doors for business in residents an insight into the op­ St. Johns Nov. 12, 1964, and had The old Hicks Building on the west eration of the new building. Most been located in leased quarters of the banking operations them-r on Clinton Avenue until Jan. 31. side of the middle block of Downtown St. selves are carried on on the main Johns is being renovated to make way -for floor. The bank is an outgrowth of a ' new D & C store. The top two floors * ' * the State Bank of Ovid, which was ENTRANCE TO the new build­ given permission in mid-1964 to are being gutted prior to tearing them ing is through a glass-enclosed See BANK page 2-A down. Work started last week„ vestibule into a large, central open bank lobby. A raised-finish ceiling, consisting of a "check­ erboard" pattern of skylights for natural light and recessed fluo­ School board aims for 26 rescent lights, is featured. Surrounding the bank lobby are private offices with glass walls new rural school rooms looking onto the lobby as well as The St, Johns board of educa- to house them all. Sixteen rooms be built at each place." the otitrof-doors. In the sanje t&iiefi^ftectfjpdJtOtjh^ for 26 are how available at the East Es- , Chances are the. two ne$ south­ manner a cashier's" cdunter"ex~- new elementary"'classrooms in sex, Eureka, St. Jotjns and' Olive ern schools woul'd-be-built near tends the length oh the lobby on the rural areas of the district, Center schools. ' the geographical center of the the north side. The bank vault providing a little "elbow room" * * area from which students will be and officer's areaare on adjacent in the first few years of their ex­ NICKEL TOLD the board "it drawn, due to transportation sides. istence. seems desirable to leave Olive costs. The rural elementary * * Center as it is and to build two boundaries for the five schools THE BASEMENT area of the The plan would provide for the new schools in the south part of (East Essex, Eureka, Olive Cen­ new bank building houses a spa­ addition of three classrooms to the district. It appears since the ter and the two new ones) have cious auditorium for general each of the East Essex and Eure­ parochial percentage is lower in not been determined, but Supt. town gatherings, civic meetings ka schools, and the building of 20 the East Essex and Eureka areas Earl Lancaster said they prob­ and other such uses. It com­ classrooms in the southern part that seven-room schools should ably would have to be flexible. Olivet College Ensemble First Lenten Series Program mands a view of a sunken, to- of the district. be - landscaped court through * * floor-to-ceiling glass. THE ACTION was taken Mon­ 9 day night at a special meeting of Associate judgeship Experts big Olivet ensemble to perform Also located in the basement the board. Members'will meet are an employee lunch room again tonight (Thursday) to get with a small kitchen, a direc­ approximate cost figures from corn, bean tors' meeting room and other high school architect Blnda and post created again Sunday at 1st Lenten service allied facilities for the bank Associates of Battle Creek and employees and its patrons. The on-again, off-again asso­ lng of property at 210 N. Trav- elementary architects St. Clair ciate judge ordinance for the The Olivet College Choral En­ area performing primarily in THE REV JACK Barlow, new and Douglas Pardee of St. Johns. er Street to ,allow the operation clinic today semble will open the annual se­ Congregational churches. minister at the Congregational - The modern Interior of the city of St. Johns is on again. of a home for the aged. The The huge crowd and long lines ries of Union Lenten Service in Christian Church of Eureka, will bank is enveloped by an equally The board Monday night also commission's action concurred of cars seen today at Smith Hall St. Johns this Sunday at the First A flute solo will be performed preside at the service Sunday. modern exterior architectural approved a plan to leave Olive The ordinance, No. 193, was with a recommendation of the in St. Johns will be for the Meet Congregational Church. by John Francisco of East Long Greeters and ushers for the style. The building sits on a Center School the way it is now. passed by the city commission city planning commission! the Experts corn-soybean clinic Meadow, Mass. The accompanist service will be from the First podium with an open colonnade Two new schools will be con­ last Tuesday evening, creating * V being held there all day. The Lenten service is the first will be Irma Thomas of Saginaw. Methodist Church of St. Johns. flanking its south; west and east structed In the southwest and temporarily the position of asso­ SPECIAL SEWER rates also of six that will be held between southeast portions of the dis­ ciate municipal judge. This al­ figured in the business of the Six nationally known agricul­ now and April 3. Services start at trict, with a total of 20 class­ lows for the appointment of some­ Feb. 15 meeting. Parr's Drug tural firms are putting on the 7:30 p.m. each Sunday night at rooms. one to try cases during the va­ Store received a 50 per cent clinic, and between 850 and 1,000 either the Congregational, Meth­ Local CD training praised; cation absence of Municipal Judge sewer rate based on a city in­ farmers from all over Michigan odist or Episcopal churches, Alba Wert. vestigation that showed part of THE LOCATIONS or sizes of * * . * are expected to attend. The St. * * the new southern schools have the waste water from the prop­ Johns clinic Is one of two strict- SPEAKERS during the series not been determined, but the A SIMILAR ordinance — it erty goes into a storm sewer. ly-Michiftan clinics. include the Rev Everett Francis, shelter program outlined board is expected to make a varied only in the number of the A similar request for a special associate in the Department of decision within a couple of weeks ordinance and the dates involv­ rate from Walt Schafer of Schaf- * * ed—was passed last year, and er's Texaco Service was tabled Programs for the Episcopal dio­ vice. mayor of the City of St. as to what size each one will be, THE PROGRAM will start at cese of Michigan, March 6; the Clinton County's civil defense ter program — a community shel­ after Judge Wert returned from to allow the city to investigate. 9 a.n). today. The speakers and training program is coming along ter planning program. Johns, vacation the ordinance was re­ Schafer said waste water from Rev Stanley H. Forkner, director * * A population study completed their 'topics will be Gene Stouf- of Christian education and pro­ well, a regional civil defense of­ voked. No associate judgeship the wash rack area of the station ficial was tbld last Wednesday. Local officials attending the ALSO PRESENT were William by Walt Nickel, assistant super­ was in effect after the repeal. does not discharge into the sani­ ler of the DeKalb Agricultural grams for the EUB Church in intendent in charge of rural Assn., "Profit'Program for Michigan, March 13; the Rev meeting were Frost; Sheriff Per­ Powell, civil defense area co­ tary sewer. ordinator for district 1, and Ru­ schools, shows a larger school ,Cornj" Marvin B. Horton, Allis- Leslie Deinstadt, associate ex­ Capt. Jack M..Nemrava, deputy cy Patterson; Extension AgentF, population on the west side of No appointment of an associ­ Ghalmers Manufacturing Co., director of the Civil Defense Di­ dolph E. Menchl, community ate judge was made by the com­ Street grading on West Mc- ecutive secretary of the NA In US-27 than on the east side. • j "Tra'dtpr and Planter Econom­ charge of missions, March 20; vision of the Michigan State Po­ shelter program officer assigned mission last week. ." Connell and West Baldwin Streets ics;" B'o-b Dougherty, Allied Dr Leroy Augensteln, chairman lice, told Region 4 Director War­ to Michigan. will be Included In a street pro­ ren P. Cleary the civil defense The school board based its gram this spring, the commission Chemical Corp., "What Does It of the department of biophysics decisions of Monday night on , In other business, the commis­ Take for 200 Bushels of Corn?"; programs in the county are be­ "I'm not out to spread gloom," sion denied a request for rezon- and City Manager Ken Greer said and a candidate for the US Sen­ Cleary said last Wednesday in Nickel's population study.