W -Of** *pt V Last week big week for farmer meetings stories; pictures on Page B-2 113th Year, No. 25 ST. JOHNS, MICH.-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1968 2 SECTIONS — 30 PAGES 15 Cents CLINTON COUNTY traffic deaths 2-hour parking limit, Since January 1, 1968 County adopts 24 THIS TIME LAST new meters OK'd in city YEAR: 8 City won't $1 million-plus give up A&P lot , The St. Johns City Commission spent much of their time Monday evening parking ... in a dis­ budget for '69 cussion of cityparklngproblems. When the meeting was over, the commission had decided to The Clinton County Board of Super­ buy 120 new parking meters for visors formally adopted a $1,062,900 expen­ Biggest :- the upper two blocks of North Clinton Avenue and attempt to ditures budget for 1969—a whopping $442,010 enforce a new two-hour parking increase over the 1968 budget adopted ayear share . limit in city parking lots. They also concurred Vtth the ago. expression of a petition, pre­ However, the amount is only $201,730 from taxes sented to them that they should . * " PATRICK B. KELLY not sell any portion of any city .higher than the budget of 1967. The county Clinton County will raise , parking lots. , budget for 1968 was drastically slashed be­ $792,739.47 of its $1,062,900 Two petitions were presented budget requirements- in 1969 by to the comm'ssioh Moriday riight> cause of financial problems, but the picture property taxesonatotalof$129,- Pat Kelly 680,021 state equalized valua­ ,t -£ J?oth* signed .by downtown men- is. Improyetd.fQiulJ|6.9 clerk $6j,000, prosecutlng-attor^ tion. This will be'-at the'-rate of chants and both concerning park­ v Tlie 19q9 budget ney $36,000, probate1 court $25,- J ing. The one regarded the sale 6.113 mills, according to a tax prosecutor 000^ county clerk $31,000, coun­ spread recommended by the of parking lot space and was willtbe, operated with ty treasurer $24,000, register .of" prompted by inquiries of federal board of supervisors' equaliza­ $792,739 in property' deeds $18,000, equalization and tion committee. r government about purchasing addressograph departments part of the south half of the park­ taxes, which will be The county will spread the fol­ St. Johns attorney Patrick B. $35,000, drain commissioner lowing amounts of tax in each of ing lot on West Waiker Street collected starting $15,000, driver's license bureau Kelly announced last week he for use by the post office. the governing units:- will be a write-in candidate for this December. $10,000, sheriff's department Bath $55,632.55, Bengal $23,- The merchants' petition said N $90,00 0,„ jail $23,000, zoning de­ prosecuting attorney of Clinton .they were 'opposed tb the selling 186.84, Bingham $31,748.03, The board also estimates re­ partment $32,900; Dallas $34,918.67, De\Vitt$145,- County in the "Nov, 5 election. of any city-owned parking lots or ceipts from county services and He'll run as a Republican. any part thereof, because said /Agriculture Extension office 084.32, Duplain $42,264.27, Ea­ fees in 1969 of $141,142, while $21,000, Mid-Michigan District gle $29,152.91, Essex $21,- Kelly was a write-in candidate lots are essential to the main­ the state income tax will yield in the primary election in August. tenance of the St. Johns central "Health Department $40,000,pro­ 012.51, Greenbush $26,821.55, an estimated $129,019 Inrevenue bation'office $5,000, juvenile Lebanon $14,024.43, Olive $31,4 He polled 378t votes, but the business district." They asked for the county. total was short'of the required the city commission to pass a clerk (probate) $4,700, friend of 751.91, Ovid $52,166.38, Riley; The final budget is somewhat the court $14,000, civil defense $21,466.12,' Victor $27,022.85^ number to have his name placed' resolution stating a commission higher than a $981,648 budget on the November ballot. There intent and policy to refrain from $9,000, Social Welfare Depart­ Watertown $66,985.14, and WesY< proposed by the board in April, ment $126,000, board of super­ phalia $29,758.73., n » are no names on the ballot for voluntarily selling any city- reflecting primarily the subse­ the office of prosecutor, and owned lot or part. visors $20,000, building and City of DeWitt residents will- quent implementation of the new grounds $27,000,- juvenile home Kelly is the only one who has board of supervisors and the new contribute $14,762.39 towar.d% announced his write-in can­ $32,000; county government," while'St.- THE COMMISSION declined to - A PILE OF LEAVES MAKES HAPPINESS district court, both of which be­ Livestock and dogs $20,000,' didacy. * take this formal step, pointing come effective Jan. X. Johns will pay $124,999.87;"lib auditor general $40,000, district county tax. , * Kelly has been practicing law out it couldn't bind future com­ No one had more fun last "Sunday afternoon than little Cheryl Stewart, Budget figures adopted by the In St. Johns about eight months court $50,000, county coroners Of the'total county tax, ^the* missions. But commissioners 3 year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs James Stewart. Cheryl was staying with board Monday for the various de­ $1,200, elections $1,500, conta­ after joining Harold Reed under said they now feel the same as 1 partments and accounts include: >oard has appropriated $562,-v the firm name of Reed and Kelly. her grandmother, Mrs Hazel Keyes of 301 E. Walker when the leaves grand­ gious -disease $18,500, county 039.47 to the contingent furid^ the merchants felt. And Commis­ CIRCUIT COURT and court drain at large $12,000, county He is a 1964 graduate of Michigan sioner Gerald Irrer commnnted mother had raked created an irrepressible urge to jump In. $126,000 for total welfare, $i*2J< State University with a bachelor reporter $28,500, assignment engineering department $19,000, 000 for county drain at large£ that "The post office can move revolving drain fund $20,000,4-H of arts degree, and he received down by the railroad tracks or $17,700 for miscellaneous ap-; his juris doctorate degree inlaw Fair fund $3,000, soldiers' bur­ propriations and $75,000 for the; some other location before I'd be ial fund $5,000,1 East Michigan from Wayne State University Law willing to sell this .(walker county road commission, ,;\ * School in 1967. New road Tourist Assn. $300, mental In acting on the appropriations; Street) lot." John Lynch joins health $12,000, bee extension He is a member of St. Joseph The other petition asked the r report Monday, the county bo£r;d* $500, Trl-County Regional Plan­ voted .that $50,000 of the roadt Parish In St. Johns, the Michigan commission to put a two-nour commission ning Commission $23,000, pen­ State Bar Assn., the American limit on free parking in city commission appropriation would' commission race sion fund $16,000, Michigan As­ be designated for use on thel Bar Assn. and presently is serv­ parking lots. The petition pointed sociation of Supervisors $1,000, ing as treasurer of the' Clinton- out that merchants did not want site OK'd John J. Lynch, agency manager partment's highest award for Tallman Road bridge over-thej for Farm Bureau Insurance, bravery. Salvation Army $300, Michigan Maple River in Lebanon Town-3 Gratiot Bar Assn. people parking in-them all day by The county board has agreed Children's Aid Society $350, . Kelly and his wife, the former making the lots parking bases to "make available" to the Clin­ Monday entered his name as a Lynch resigned from the police ship, and the other $25,000wolild] write-in candidate for a post on force and entered the insurance Michigan Week $100; be applied to the extension ol* Georglanna Simon of rural St. for car pools to Lansing. ton County Road Commission a 1 Johns, live at 207-1/2 S. Oakland 20-acre parcel on its county the St. John's City Commission, field in January 1961 and upon Soil conservationclerk$3,200, State Road east from Wood to The commission instructed the bringing to three the number of completion of his first year he tax allocation board $900, gen­ Chandler. ^, *. .< Street. They have a daughter, city manager to put two-hour farm property for a site for fu­ ( Meghan Simon Kelly, one year ture relocation of the road com­ persons seeking such a position. was cited by "Insurance Sales­ eral office supplies $7,000, re­ The money appropriated to the. limit signs in the lots under a Earlier announcementswere man" magazine as outstanding cording of births and deaths old. temporary traffic control order mission. road commission is used to ob­ made by Robert H. Wood and agent for Farm Bureau Insurance $150, insurance and bonds $10"",- tain matching funds from state that can be made permanent at v The site would be along US-27 John W. Hannah. f or 1961. He was appointed career 000, temporary relief (veterans) and federal levels. a later date. north of Taft Road and south of North Michigan In making his announcement, 'agency manager for Clinton- $200, Grand ' River Watershed In a related lilt of business They also discussed, and an t area of muckland. The 20 Shiawassee counties at the be­ Council $1,400, gasoline for seemed agreed' on, a $1 fine for Lynch told a News reporter that Monday, the board approved, a acres would run f26 feet along he has no axes to grind but Is ginning of 1964 and that district county cars $8,000, social secu­ overtime parking both in the lots US-27 afnd would be 1,200 feet supplementary appropriation of ablaze in entering the race because of a was expanded to include Gratiot, rity $12,000, road bridges $75,- $35,000 to the Department of'So­ and in metered zones, instead of deep.