Thousands of ribbons given 304 get 458 immunizations Football practice INSIDE: at 4-H Fairr-Pages BIO, 11, 12, 13 at first free clinic — Page 4B starts Monday — Page 9 A Ith Year No. 18 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN THURSDAY AUGUST 25, 1966 2 SECTIONS — 28 PAGES 10 CENTS City reluctant to assess $4.64 for curb, gutter Per foot • • • • • • • • * cost jumps CD wins space Property owners who wince at the thought of paying $4.64 per linear foot for that new curb and gutter this year have a sympathetic companion—the city commission. Commissioners last Tuesday in new wing night expressed some reluctance to assess that much to property owners along about 24 blocks The proposed civil defense emergency of city streets where curb and operating center will be included in the gutter are going in this summer. new east wing of the Clinton County Court­ * But that's how the costs work out, City Manager Ken Greer house after all. told the commission. And even The board of supervisors, at a special then the city-at-large is picking up about 20 per cent of the meeting last week, voted 16-3 to approve total $80,412 project cost by alternate plan 2 — the EOC. It will cost a paying for the curb and gutter at all the intersections and in total of $34,960, bringing the overall cost front of other public property. of the new wing to $231,476. ABOUT 13,000 OF the 17,300 Late in July the to discuss only that. It lasted linear feet of curb and gutter board had approved only 45 minutes and appeared will be placed in front of private to clear up some hesitancy on property. If the city were to bids for the construc­ the part of some supervisors continue a policy of paying 20 tion of the wing and concerning the "strings" attach­ per cent of the project costs and New look in the downtown area of St. Johns some excavation be­ ed to federal aid for the EOC. assessing the other 80 per cent, as it has done with water and Workmen took the wraps off the front of the new D & C Store in the- center block neath the present HALF OF THE $34,960 bids sewer assessments, the cost to of Clinton Avenue last Wednesday, and this was how it looked later in the day as the courthouse, but the for the EOC will be paid for property owners for the curb with federal funds. William L. DEAN STORK I S and gutter would be $4.64. facade signs were installed. There's a lot of work to be done inside, yet, and D & C civil defense center Powell, civil defense area co­ " The commission tabled a re­ Manager Ken Dickens said it will^*probably be sometime in October before the new was left out. ordinator, was present- at the quest by Greer and City As­ Last week's approval of the meeting along with county CD Name new sessor Don Clark last Tuesday store opens. It will have between 6,500 and 7,000 square feet of display area, .about 50 emergency operating center Director Charles Frost. for some sort of decision so per cent more than the present store at the corner of .Clinton and Walker. came at a special meeting called "The only string attached," that Clark could get the assess­ Powell said, "is that the EOC principal ment notices in the mail. They must be used for county govern­ decided, instead, to "talk this ment; it can't be leased or rented .over and vote on it later." 30 new units by first of year out. Civil defense must have at Fowler The general attitude of the office space in it, but the rest commission was that $4.64 per of the area can be used for other FOWLER—L. Dean Stork, an foot was an excessive amount offices." Ohio native, has assumed the duties of principal at Fowler compared to what other property In fact, he said, "civil de­ High School. He replaces Rich­ owners had been assessed in the Apartment boom in St. Johns! fense encourages dual use of ard Thelen who has served in past on curb and gutter proj- these buildings and discourages that capacity for the past three ' , ects. One commissioner said he sole use for civil defense." This St. Johns is in the midst of an apartment ample closets and additional storage space The entrance side of the building will be • years. t^ didn't think it would be'fair to is practically an about-face from building boom which will put 30 new apartments in a utility room. All apartments will be wired finished with brick, flberglas and aluminum. the policy of three or four years Stork was born in Defiande, (Jharge more than about $1.70 onto the marketbetweenthemiddleofSeptember for phone "jacks" and for TV off a common Parking space will be provided for all ago, he said. Ohio, and graduated from high or so per foot, another said and the first of the year. antenna. maybe half of the $4.64. Another residents and up to four guests. Dr Stoller school there. He received his Workmen are already up to the upper floor suggested a ratio of perhaps said he anticipates eventually providing car­ SUPERVISOR ERNEST Carter bachelor of arts degree from in construction of a 2 1/2-story apartment THERE WILL BE THREE livlnglevels, with 60- 40 property-owner and city ports at the rear of the building, but this will of Watertown Township said he Anderson College (Ind.) in 1952 t building owned by Jud Marzke on Sturgis Street the 1 one-bedroom apartment to be located and his master of arts degree participation. be several years in the future. couldn't see how "our crowded just east of Baker Street. Twelve apartments on the lowest floor of the 2 1/2-story building, in secondary administration ^ / IN ITS ASSESSMENT resolu- offices could be thrown out in are involved there. A wide hallway will run the length-of the an emergency." Powell answered from Michigan State University (See CURB, Page 4-A) THE BUILDING IS BEING constructed'on Immediately next door to the west, Darrel -building on each floor at the center of the by saying that in the event of a in 1965. E. Jones of 604. E. Walker Street is con­ structure, providing access to the apartments. a wedge-shaped piece of land 260 feet across FREE CHECKING accountsfor the front on US-27 by 200 feet deep and 134 nuclear or other civil defense He has served as pastoral structing a half-dozen one-bedroom apartments, Dr Stoller said the building will be called all senior citizens at Central Na­ feet across the back. This leaves plenty of emergency, the desks, tele­ minister in Indiana, Illinois and tional Bank of St. Johns, Ovid and some of which he hopes to have ready by the "Centennial Apartments" and will feature a phones and files in the existing Michigan. He has been a mem­ Pewamo. middle of September. colonial pillared front, with four large pillars. (See APARTMENT BOOM, Page 2-A) offices would be needed by civil ber of the Cedar Springs faculty defense. This would be particu­ for five years, where he taught _ . THE LATEST CONSTRUCTION to be start­ larly true if the health depart­ English, mathematics, choral ed is on a 12-apartment building on the west ment or welfare department or music and coached golf. side of US-27 across from the Wheel Inn some such, agency were located HIS WIFE, Alice, Is also a and south of the Capri Motel. These apartments in the EOC. graduate of Anderson College \ 8 are the project of Dr P. F, Stoller, St. Johns Carter further asked whether where she majored in the com­ CHECK THE ALPHABET f physician. or not the Mid-Michigan District mercial field and minored in A Is for Antiques ft* All the apartments are on the city's south­ Health Department had been re­ music. Mr and Mrs Stork have B la for Boats - & east side. six children, Beth 12, Brian 9, C Is for Cars :£ fused space in the new EOC in D' la for Dogs % Dr Stoller detailed his building program Montcalm County. George Moore Keith 7, Kurt 5, Laura Lee 2 E Is for Electrical Appliances £; Monday evening. Eleven two-bedroom and 1 of DuplainTownship, chairmanof and Barbara 5 months old. F Is for Furniture K- one-bedroom apartments are planned for a 40 G IsfofGolfCIubB % the civil defense committee, said Stork will be moving his fam­ H Is for Heaters $ by 96-foot colonial style building being built he understood the Montcalm ily to Fbwler in the near future. I Is for Ironers $ for him by the Walter Neller Co. of'Lansing. .1 TK for Jewelry ;& board had assigned most of the K I< for Kilrhen Equipment ft; It is expected to be ready for odeupancy by space there and there was not PRIVATE elementary school h Is for livestock ;•£ the first of the year. M It* for Motorcycles ft; enough left to satisfy the health has a limited number of openings They will be "deluxe" apartments, Dr for students with Christian back­ N la for Nursery Equipment Iv department. O Is for Office Equipment '.<;• Stoller. said, each with carpeting, air condition­ ground, child mustbenormal with P Is for Pinnos Ift ing, garbage disposal, with hot water heat and The proposed "Centennial Apartments" building on South US-27 POWELL SAID he was sure ordinary intelligence; registra­ Q Is for Quilts :ft the federal government had not R.