c Board must decide on drastic budgevt cuts or 2nd millage try The Cass City School School District election. latter route: Ask for the 5.5 about $300,000 a year (plus added millage would k de- Board when it meets Mon- They represented 53.4 mills again, make some cuts an additional. $100,000 in feated. day will have to decide a percent of the” approxi- in the 1982-83 school pro- state aid). People were very course of action following mately 4,000 registered gram and ask for a reduced The board meeting starts receptive to the message he the defeat last Friday of the voters in the district, amount of millage to pay for at 7:30 p.m. at the high delivered and understood the requested additional The choices facing the what remains, or give voters school, need for the millage, he ex- millage. board at its regular monthly a choice -- such a6 so much Crouse said he wasn’t sur- plained, “but their own pr- The request for 5.5 added meeting Monday at the high millage if they want to retain prised that the additional sonal financial situation was mills for one year, which school, according to Supt. school busing, so much to millage was defeated. “I they could not afford it.” would have raised an esti- Donald Crouse, are to make retain all prBent instruc- really did not anticipate the He did find som’e consola- mated $524,000, was defeated more than $~,ooOin budget tional programs and so extra millage. would pass tion in the overwhelming 1,218-914. cuts from the 1982-83 sthool much for sports and other because of the economic approval of the renewal, Renewal of 12.9 mills was ye;ar -- the amount the 5.5 extracurricular activities. situation,’ ’ noting that in some Michigan approved, 1,463-669. Four mills would have raised -- or To retain school busing, The superintendent made school districts, even ballots were spoiled on both schedule another millage for instance, would mean numerous appearances to renewals have been ballot questions. vote as part of the June 14 taxpayers would have to explain the millage and the defeated. “Our people voted The. 2,136 persons who school board election. approve a levy of about 3 indication he received in in a very supportive manner voted were the most who ever The board has three mills, since transporting talking to persons he for the renewal,” Crouse cast ballots in a Cass City choices if they choose the students costs the district explained, was that the commented. CASS CITY CHRONICLE MACHINES ANYONE? -- Counting at1 the school millage ballots by hand can become tedious. Polls closed at 8 p.m. VOLUME 76. NUMBER 3 The election workers were done bounting before midnight. Gagetown oks bonds for sanitary -sewerproject The Gagetown Village covered by the federal and notice of the intention toq in October. percent, instead of the Council voted 5-1 Monday state grants, thus bringing issue the bonds. The legal Since winter will swn be on present 75, and the state is evening to authorize sale of the local share to $7OO,OOO. notice appears elsewhere in its way by then, construc- eliminating its 5 percent $355,000 in revenue bonds to Of that amount, the Farm- this issue of the Chronicle. tion won’t start until spring share of the funding. \ pay for the local portion of ers Home Administration Having to pay the hookup 1983. Thus had the council de- financing for construction of (FHA) is givfng the village and user fees will be an It is expected it will take at layed action, he said, the a sanitary sewer system. $345,000 and is loaning it extreme hardship for some least a year for the project to state could have some day Total cost of the project $355,000 by buying the village residents, Village be completed, including ordered the sewer system to could top $1.9 million. Con- revenue bonds, to be repaid President William Downing fixing of streets and lawns. be installed anyway, which struction won’t shjt until over 40years at an interest said, “but we have no choice From the buildings, sew- would have cost village resi- spring of next year. rate not to exceed 11.375 per- in the matter.” age will flow’ through the dents a lot more. “We’ll Cagetown has been under cent. HOW MUCH RESIDENTS sewers to two treatment never get it this cheap urders from the state since THE LOAN WILL BE RE! will pay, depends in a large lagoons. After the pollutants again. 1968 to eventually eliminate paid by the hookup fee part, on how much the con- have settled out, the waste- Gagetown may also gain if discharge by septic tank building owners will pay to tractor who is awarded the water will be discharged the slump in the building systems of raw or semi- connect their structures to construction bid charges. each spring into the Bearss business continues, which treated sewage into storm the sewer lines once they are Downing said the village Drain, according to a 1980 makes contractors anxious sewers and ditches. installed and by the monthly council will conduct a town EPA description of the to bid low in order to be The village is receiving p1 or quarterly mer fees. meeting in the near future at proposed project. awarded the contract. $1,177,000 grant from the Because the bonds will be which property owners will . “IT’S GOING TO HURT When Unionville awarded U.S. Environmental Pro- . repaid by fees paid byl,the be given an idea how much everybody,” Downing said a contract not too long ago tection Agency (EPA), users, not through taxes, the the sanitary sewer system of the cost of the project, for construction of its which will pay 75 percent of law does not require a public will cost them. “but we’ll never get another sanitary sewer system, the eligible cost of the vote of approval before they Edmands Engineering of opportunity like this.” Downing said, the successful -roject. The state will can be issued. Ba’y City is preparing the Had the council not low bid was $7OO,ooO less ,ontribute another 5 percent, However, an election must final plans and bid docu- decided a couple of months than had been estimated. $78,467. be held if a petition signed by ments. Advertising for bids ago to accept the FHA grant, Voting for’the resolution to That means local village at least 10 percent of the will probably take place in the money would have gone issue the revenue bonds residents have to pay the 20 electors is submitted to the August or September, to someone else. ’ were council members percent remaining share,, village clerk within 45 days Downing said, with the con- The Reagan Administra- Charles Wright, Fred Sulli- plus some costs that aren’t of the publication of the legal struction bid to be awarded tion is talking about van, Richard Carroll, Leroy reducing the EPA share for Stapleton, and David Abbe. Dr. Ballard dies such projects to 50 or 60 Opposed was Thomas Reehl. ‘\ Wickesowes I ‘I FUTURE SUGAR -- Unionville farmer Barry Sting Friday at age 65 $2 billion reloads his 12-row planter in a field south of Bay City-For- estville Road, about a mile west of Gagetown. He started Dr. James H. Ballard, Ballard graduated from- he delivered about 2,400 MD, who served the medical the Unirersity of Michigan babies. His office assistant planting 300 acres of sugar beets, half his and half needs of the Cass City com- College of Medicine in 1943. estimated it was more like belonging to a cousin, Monday of last week and finished munity for 35 years, died Following his internship, he 3,OOo. to creditors Friday. Friday at James Areher served as a doctor in the Some of his patients had W ic kes Agriculture, which Wickes Agriculture has q:mith Hospital in Home- Army in Europe during gone to him all 35 years. has been making money, is more than 50 elevators, -wad, Fla., after a short ill- World War 11. He and his wife lived on included in its parent com- terminals, processing and ness. He and his wife came to Huron Street and had spent pany’s filing in federal bank- packaging plants in several He was 65 and had retired Cass City in 1946, where he the winter in Florida. ruptcy court for protection states. It had sales of $236 from medical practice May opened his practice at Cass Ballard is survived by his Some farmers sell, from creditors. million during its last fiscal 30 of last year. City Hospital. When it was wife; four daughters, Mrs. Wickes Companies, Inc., year, out of total Wickes in, 1960s He was born Jan, 19, 1917, closed the early Ralph (Dorothy) Bahna, in filing the Chaptpr 11 sales of $4 billion. when Hills and Dales Gen- in Berwyn, Ill., the son of Stamford, Conn., Mrs. petition April 24 in Los In announcing in mid- Harold L. Ballard of Braden- eral Hospital opened, Bal- James (Catherine) Sharl, Angeles, said it owed $2 April the breakoff of talks ton, Fla., and the late Aline lard moved his clinic to a Clarkston, Mrs. Daniel billion to a list of creditors with Pillsbury, Wickes gave (Morley Smith) Ballard. He building on Weaver Street, (Jane) Lyons, Homestead, that filled thousands of no explanation except that but others expand married Dorothy Luthi June where he stayed until he Fla., and Mrs.