GIVE TO EAST JORDAN NEWS & JOUR LOCAL CHARLEVOIX COUNTY CHEST FUND HERALD, CONSOLIDATED SERVING THE FASTEST GROWING AREA IN THE NORTH VOLUME 59 NUMBER 41 EAST JORDAN, MICH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1955 10 CENTS OVER THE 100 ATTEND MEETING BACK FENCE Lawyers Prepare BY MARSHALL For October 31 We have been fraught with six kinds of woe over the unhap• py comments Which have reached our drooping ears regarding om• Foote Will Trial ission of bills in regular publica• Attorneys assigned to the been found. The only relative tion of city council proceedings. court case involving the will of mentioned in the will, however, the late Frank - Foote, of East is his sister, Mrs. Gibson. All manner of reasons have Jordan, were gathering informa• reached us via a vine of grapes; tion today against an October Relatives include the children and they point to our wilful tin• 31st circuit court jury trial dead of Mrs. Gibson. It was reported kering with the council jproceed- line. that Foote had a brother, but it FARMER BLAST ings. Talk is the newspaper is Among attorneys working on was not said whether he is living. keeping the list of bills paid "out the case are William T. Downs, It has been believed that of the paper" for one reason or of East Jordan, representing the Foote's total estate will reach other. local library; Benjamin Hal- nearly $40,000. Actually, it is for one reason stead, of Petoskey, representing Mrs. Minnie Gibson, sister of HE LIVED a lonely life on a and no other. Foote, who is attempting to small farm on north M-66 near But some readers would have break the strange will; and Wen- here and had few close friends us covered with Cannon's Black del Niles, U. S. district attorney, for 40 years. * * * Slave and turkey feathered to of Grand Rapids, representing At one time Mrs. Gibson said TAXINCharlevoixG METHOD the hilt. Others would have us the U. S. Government. Guy C. in Meadsville: "Everyone is try• Chest hanged during the shady part of Conkle, Jr., of Boyne City, is ing to get the money." the day from the nearest Con• administrator. Several weeks ago the case Player Dies Suggest Better Way For sumers Power light pole. was moved from Probate Judge The attorneys will assemble at Floyd 'Supp's court to circuit Kick-Off Before Game All this has prompted a Strong Meadsville, Miss., October 14 to court at Charlevoix with Circuit Rural Property Assessment desire within us to escape into hear testimony from Mrs. Gibson. Judge Charles Brown, of Tra• Funeral services for Frederick the heather and subsist upon She is 84 years old and unable to verse City setting the October J. Putman, 18, Charlevoix High The method of assessing farm property and a milkweeds until relatives come travel. 3\ trial date. to claim us. Ready school senior and football player, warning about encroaching upon farm production It is believed Mrs. Gibson will were held Monday at the First Yes! Some folks have been A community chest kick-off with modern highways were topics discussed by 100 attempt to break the will on the breakfast will be held at the Congregational church at Char• carried away with wild rumors grounds that her brother was not levoix with-burial in Brookside Charlevoix county farmers at the East Jordan high about the lack of paid bills in Presbyterian church basement of sound mind when the will was Firemen next Wednesday morning before cemetery. school Tuesday night. the published council proceed• written. ings. the start of the 1955 drive for The young Rayder football An entirely new approach to farm property as• The 78-year old East Jordan funds, it was reported by Cam• Wherever they have been car• farmer died at Charlevoix hos• player died Friday night at paign Chairman William Dtowns. Grayling after he collapsed on sessments was suggested by the rural people at• ried away to, perhaps this ex• pital last December 30th, leav• Warn On Downs said all community cap• tending the annual meeting of the Charlevoix Coun• planation will guide their safe ing a will that, brought national tains have been named and that the gridiron as the Charlevoix return. interest because of the request the annual drive details have team started its warmup exer• ty Farm Bureau. It could be the city council regarding $14,00,0 worth of gov• been worked out. The drive runs cises. The farmers claimed that a modern and more; itself decided to leave out the ernment bonds. Phone Use from October 19 to 29. He was dead on arrival at Mer• long list of paid bills to shorten cy hospital. An autopsy was per• fair method of rural property assessment would be up the expense of publishing the The East Jordan fire depart• The current goal is $6,500. FOOTE ASKED that the ment today issued a warning a- formed Saturday by Dr. Stanley to tax the land according to its capabilities — con• proceedings every fortnight. And A. Stealy of Grayling, Crawford that the council, through its city bonds be burned and the govern• gainst unauthorized persons' an• Residential captain is Ruth ment debt to him be canceled. swering the fire telephone af• Bell. Tom Galmore heads up the county coroner, who said that sidering the condition of the soil for good farming. clerk, informed the newspaper ter the alarm is sounded. death was due to a functional the list would no longer be fur• Industrial securities mention• business division and William Right now farm property is It was said that in the past un• disturbance which caused a car- nished, for publication. ed in the will amounted to about Grauel the industry section. Ru• assessed according to its use. $11,000 current valuation. authorized persons have reached dio-respiratory arrest. Dr. Stea• ral work will be in charge of Jim Shepard It was said that a modern, am• Now, that is a bang-up ex• Foote willed the stock to the the fire hall before firemen and Betty Robertson. ly added that the disturbance was "Red Cross" and requested that have answered the telephone to a persistent thymus gland or one bitious farmer working land that planation with good legs upon which failed to atrophy. which to stand; and it releases his sister receive income from find where the fire is located. DOWNS SAID the divisions isn't the best all around farm us from the salt mines where them. He gave" his small fruit This practice, it was said, leads have been given the following Born at Gaylord April 17, At National land, is taxed more than a far• some readers have condemned farm to Michigan State College to confusion and misunderstand• quotas: Rural, $425; business, 1937, Putman attended the Gay- mer who lets his farm run down us. and his large collection of books ing regarding exact location of $1,100; industry, $2,750 and re• lord schools before moving to -—even though that farmer's to East Jordan public library. the fire. sidential, $1,800. Charlevoix with his parents, Mr. F.F.A. Meet land is rich and capable of good and Mrs. Leo Putman, five years So occasionally things aren't Only authorized persons who The annual Community Chest James Shepard of East Jor• production. our fault. We said occasionally, Since first reading of the will may legally answer the fire te• budget was announced as fol• ago. He was a member of the several relatives of Foote's have varsity basketball team last year dan, and Thomas Beatty of Wil- didn't we? lephone are members of the de• lows: liamston, are representing Michi• They claim the first farmer partment and retired members. Boy Scouts :-— $500 and played end on "the varsity must work harder and has a * * * football team this fall. gan at the National Future Far• The department said today it Girl Scouts $250 mer Convention at Kansas City greater expense, but is taxed Some time ago we said there would no longer tolerate any United Fund ($792 more. were more rumors per square Firemen this week. They are official de• unauthorized person answering American Legion Auxiliary legates in the voting body which person in East Jordan than any the fire telephone and in the fu• Christmas Fund $200 Farmers feel that assessing other area, including the lower includes two delegates from each ture will take proper action ag• Comm. Service $400 E. J. Teacher of the 48 states. farm land on .its capabilities east side of Elmira. Host to Area ainst anyone doing so. Summer Recreation •_ $1,200 Nancy Folkstad, East Jordan would give the assessor a better Square Dance $250 High School teacher received ad• Michigan Future Farmers are yard stick with which to make But if it weren't for rumors more fair assessments. and an occasional threat of law• Health, milk etc. $850 vanced training in homemaking receiving outstanding honors for suit, where would be the meat Sup Salvation Army •__ $100 education at the eighth annual recent accomplishments as the A resolution to this effect was ervisors Price Hiked of small town livin|g? Rumors iSupervisors and their township Comm. Nurse $875 Michigan Homemaking Teachers convention proceeds. Eleven Mi• passed by the 100 farmers pre• provide much of the thrill <of life boards surrounding East Jordan For Local Winter Rec. $200 Conference at Kellogg Center, chigan young men were awarded sent and will be included in the —and a little of the chagrin. were guests of the East Jordan Emergency $383 Michigan State recently.